ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,898, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG (Bonn, Germany).
"Functionalised and sealed part" was invented by Markus Hutzen (Sankt Augustin, Germany) and Fabian Siggia (Cologne, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component comprising a sheet-like reinforcing component having a first stiffness and a sheet-like attachment made of an attachment material having a second stiffness, wherein the first stiffness is higher than the second stiffness, wherein the planar reinforcing component has an upper and lower side and the attachment is connected at least to the upper or lower side of the planar reinforcing c...