ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,624, issued on April 1, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Metallic non-painting injection molding for vehicles" was invented by Han Ki Sung (Ulsan, South Korea), Min Jin Choi (Bucheon-si, South Korea), Young Rok Yoon (Ulsan, South Korea), Kyoung Sil Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and JunSik Choi (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metallic unpainted injection molding for a vehicle is disclosed. The metallic unpainted injection molding for a vehicle is molded by injecting metallic resins into a molding part inside an injection mold through a plurality of gates to...