US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Aug. 5 for "Decorative composite material with three-dimensional structures arranged in recessed regions" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,780, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Decorative composite material with three-dimensional structures arranged in recessed regions" was invented by Jens Humpenoeder (Ulm, Germany), Harald Tattko (Gaertringen, Germany), Peter Schmitz (Aidlingen, Germany) and Bernd-Uwe Kettemann (Renningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative composite material includes a flat translucent decorative material with a visible side and a rear side opposite the visible side and a light-impermeable layer arranged on the rear side and having recessed regions. Three-dimensional structures are arrang...