US Patent Issued to Magna Exteriors on Jan. 13 for "Information display on the outside of a vehicle, and method for operating a hinged cover in the form of an information display" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,069, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Magna Exteriors GmbH (Sailauf, Germany).

"Information display on the outside of a vehicle, and method for operating a hinged cover in the form of an information display" was invented by Michael Wurster (Esslingen, Germany) and Thomas Paule (Glattbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information display on the outside of a vehicle, comprised of at least one illumination element or a display, which is overpainted with paint layers, wherein one of the paint layers has the car colour, and wherein a pattern in the form of holes or areas is produced in all the paint layers by ablation by me...