US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE PLASTIC OMNIUM on March 18 for "Body part comprising a lenticular wall to form a three-dimensional image" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,690, issued on March 18, was assigned to COMPAGNIE PLASTIC OMNIUM (Lyons, France).

"Body part comprising a lenticular wall to form a three-dimensional image" was invented by Issam Khayat (Sainte-Julie, France), Vivien Schott (Sainte-Julie, France), Damien Boisson (Sainte-Julie, France) and Olivier Torres (Sainte-Julie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Motor-vehicle body part including a lenticular sheet made of transparent molded plastic material of a given refractive index (n) higher than 1 and a given thickness (e), includes an external face forming an array of substantially spherical microlenses of a given radius of curvatur...