ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,761, issued on March 11, was assigned to Motherson Innovations Co. Ltd. (London).

"First surface decorative element" was invented by Dean Caruso (Lonsdale, Australia), Simon David Field (Lonsdale, Australia), Bastian Stoehr (Lonsdale, Australia) and Scott Edwards (Lonsdale, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a decorative vehicle element including a, preferably radio-transmissive, substrate having a first surface on a first side and a second surface on a second side; and a first surface, preferably radio-transmissive, decorative coating on the substrate, the decorative coating including a decorative...