US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 22 for "Paint bell cup for vehicle paint application" (American, Guatemalan, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,383, issued on April 22, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Paint bell cup for vehicle paint application" was invented by Deanna Stangas (Royal Oak, Mich.), Alonso Samuel Chavez (San Luis Potosi, Mexico), Octavio Addiel Pichardo (Celaya, Guatemala), Hua-tzu Fan (Troy, Mich.), Ronald C. Daul (Northville, Mich.) and Dominick Michael Lentine (Napa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A paint bell cup for directing a spray of paint onto a surface includes a cup body having an outer surface, an inner conical surface having a circumferential edge, and a stem extending from the outer surface. The stem includes ...