US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Dec. 16 for "Component for a transportation device, transportation device, and method for producing the component" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,093, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Component for a transportation device, transportation device, and method for producing the component" was invented by Andreas Lang (Groebenzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component for a transportation device includes a support structure, a cover portion, an elastic seal portion, which is formed between the support structure and the cover portion and which is integrally bonded to the support structure and/or to the cover portion, and an optical waveguide. The support structure, the cover portion and the seal portion delimit a receptacle, whi...