US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 1 for "Transparent composite for a vehicle roof" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,315, issued on July 1, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Transparent composite for a vehicle roof" was invented by Bradley Allen Newcomb (Troy, Mich.), Joung Min Choi (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Julien P. Mourou (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof for a vehicle upper body structure includes a body extending between a first side and a second side, and between a front end and a back end. The front end is configured to be coupled to a header. The body includes a polymer and a plurality of fibers. At least a portion of the body has a transparency of greater than 0% to less than or ...