ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,069, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CPK Interior Products Inc. (Port Hope, Canada).

"Method of manufacturing a trim panel" was invented by Manthan Pareshkumar Patel (Scarborough, Canada), Bruce Arthur Giroux (Port Hope, Canada), Gregory James Farrar (Roblin, Canada), Collin James Goody (Cobourg, Canada), Zachary Paul Fedak (Courtice, Canada) and Murali Mohan Reddy (Belleville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An over-molded interior trim method and system are provided. In another aspect, a method of manufacturing a trim panel includes: injecting a liquid substrate polymer between molds to create a substrate, injecting a liqu...