ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,208, issued on April 14, was assigned to Magna Exteriors Inc. (Aurora, Canada).
"Overmolding assembly reinforcement bracket" was invented by Stanislav Tichy (Troy, Mich.), Riad Chaaya (Clarkston, Mich.), Mark P. Birka (Northville, Mich.), Christopher J. Kuntze (Goodrich, Mich.) and Heiner Salzmann (Metamora, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liftgate formed with a thermoplastic which is overmolded around preselected reinforcements at stress points, such as a corner area, which includes a pair of separate reinforcement plates and wherein a 3-dimensional reinforcement plate is connected between the pair of separate reinforcements...