US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Sept. 1 for "Illuminable decorative multilayer composite for a vehicle and vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,734, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Illuminable decorative multilayer composite for a vehicle and vehicle" was invented by Jens Humpenoeder (Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illuminable decorative multilayer composite for a vehicle has an outer coating with a visible side and a rear side facing away from the visible side. The rear side of the outer coating has a light-conducting coating into which light can be coupled from a lateral edge of the decorative multilayer composite. The composite also has a decoupling element, a carrier coating with a design element on a rear ...