ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,825, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Innome GmbH (Espelkamp, Germany) and Deutschland AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Composite component comprising a piece of material composed of foam material or elastomer material" was invented by Marc-Stephan Weiser (Kurten, Germany), Martin Huttner (Leverkusen, Germany), Klas-Moritz Kossel (Verden, Germany), Marco Ahlswede (Bad Fallingbostel, Germany), Thorsten Kramer (Langenfeld, Germany), Daniel Baasner (Minden, Germany), Bjarne Muth (Lubbecke, Germany) and Eike Wilhelm Kottkamp (Lubbecke, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite component having a piece of material which is elastic in...