US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 30 for "Pressed carrier with partial backlighting" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,934, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Pressed carrier with partial backlighting" was invented by Philipp Gruhn (Munich), Renate Korn (Munich), Marlies Michel (Oberschleissheim, Germany) and Bernhard Schmid (Hallbergmoos, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molded part, in particular to an interior trim part of a motor vehicle, consists of a pressed carrier, formed from a fiber-plastic composite, a carrier structure made of a plastic for fixedly arranging the molded part on a motor vehicle, and a light source. The carrier structure is molded with an injection molding method to a surface ...