US Patent Issued to Faurecia Innenraum Systeme on Oct. 21 for "Vehicle interior trim element with haptic feedback function" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,903, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH (Hagenbach, Germany).

"Vehicle interior trim element with haptic feedback function" was invented by Maxime Musy (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Bogdan Braicu (Strasbourg, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle interior trim element with haptic feedback function includes an elastic base layer that gives the vehicle interior trim element a soft feel, and a flexible cover layer. The flexible cover layer includes an electrically insulating top layer disposed on the visible side of the vehicle interior trim element, an electrically conductive sensor layer disposed b...