US Patent Issued to LEAR on May 26 for "Method and apparatus for producing a vehicle interior component" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,845, issued on May 26, was assigned to LEAR Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).

"Method and apparatus for producing a vehicle interior component" was invented by Lisa Swikoski (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Michelle A. Brudzynsky (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Ibrahim Valenzuela (Novi, Mich.), Haifeng Liu (Novi, Mich.), Kevin M. Geisler (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jeanene F. Munroe (Southfield, Mich.), David Anderson (Orchard Lake, Mich.), Joshua Hallock (Warren, Mich.) and Mark Karges (Macomb, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for producing a vehicle interior component may include creating a plurality of molten polymeric filaments...