ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,600, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Mutex LLC.
"Automobile interior with enhanced acoustics and thermal resistance and methods for making same" was invented by James P. Kraft Jr. (Milford, Mich.) and Robert Bowden II (Brighton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology includes an automobile interior with enhanced acoustics and thermal resistance. In one embodiment, the automobile interior includes a sound-absorbing material coupled to an interior automobile surface adjacent to an automobile speaker. The sound-absorbing material includes an absorptive surface and a backing. The absorptive surface faces towar...