ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,519, issued on March 11, was assigned to Avery Dennison Corp. (Mentor, Ohio).

"Multilayer coating for covering vehicle body parts" was invented by Hugues Vandeparre (Thoricourt, Belgium), Regis Barbieux (Braine-le-Comte, Belgium) and Jean-Christophe Minor (Bassilly, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a multilayer coating for covering vehicle body parts. The method comprises providing a polymeric facestock layer (3) providing a polymeric top coat layer (4), providing a polymeric adhesive layer (2), and sandwiching the polymeric facestock layer (3) between the polymeric t...