ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,090, issued on April 21, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).
"Bracket assembly with bendable substrate" was invented by Scott D. Bair (Skokie, Ill.), John F. Healey (Naperville, Ill.) and Piotr Sliwa (Arlington Heights, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bracket assembly includes a camera bracket having a glare shield surface and a sidewall surface. The bracket assembly further includes a flexible substrate having a glare shield substrate configured to be attached on the glare shield surface, a sidewall substrate configured to be attached on the sidewall surface, and a channel between the glare shield subst...