US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 15 for "Physical vapor deposition coating layer combination for color development enabling laser etching without backlit color disruption" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,350, issued on April 15, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Physical vapor deposition coating layer combination for color development enabling laser etching without backlit color disruption" was invented by Woo-Sung Bae (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to an automotive component and method of finishing such component including a polymer substrate, a tinted primer disposed over a first surface of the polymer substrate, a semi-transparent metallic coating disposed over the tinted primer. The semi-transparent metallic coating and tinted primer define at leas...