ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,046, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to JOYSONQUIN Automotive Systems GmbH (Rutesheim, Germany).
"Method for producing a decorative part and decorative part producible by this method" was invented by Klaus Bieniek (Muhlacker, Germany) and Muamet Sadiku (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a decorative part which comprises a visible side with a decorative layer and a mounting side with a substrate layer, wherein a polysilazane-containing composition is applied to the visible side of the decorative layer to form a cover layer and is subsequently cured. Also, a decorative part producible by the metho...