ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,931, issued on April 14, was assigned to JOYSONQUIN Automotive Systems GmbH (Rutesheim, Germany).
"Method of manufacturing a decorative part" was invented by Liesa Gunther (Pforzheim, Germany), Claudia Wengert (Pforzheim, Germany) and Claudio Vizziello (Rutesheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a decorative part in which a decorative layer is arranged on a visible side of a substrate and the decorative layer is provided with a visible-side coating. In the method according to the invention, particulate decorative material is provided for producing the decorative layer, which is applied to a flat substra...