ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,091, issued on April 22, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Polarization selective coating additives for sensor applications" was invented by Alebel H. Arage (Lake Orion, Mich.), Michael Dziatczak (Shelby Township, Mich.) and Kubilay Sertel (Hilliard, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar packaging component including a coating affixed on a substrate. The coating includes a binder and a plurality of acicular flake particles dispersed in the binder. The acicular flake particles exhibit a length and the length of at least 30 percent by volume of the acicular flake particles is oriented in a first axis....