US Patent Issued to GENTEX on Oct. 21 for "Device with a multizone reflector having a discreet opening for a sensor" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,202, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GENTEX Corp. (Zeeland, Mich.).

"Device with a multizone reflector having a discreet opening for a sensor" was invented by Brian R. Olson (Holland, Mich.), George A. Neuman (Holland, Mich.), Mario F. Saenger Nayver (Holland, Mich.) and John S. Anderson (Holland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reflective member having transflective and substantially opaque regions is disclosed. The transflective region may serve as a sensor opening region. When viewing the member from a first direction, the difference between a total light reflectance of the member at the substantially opaque region and a...