ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,676, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to PPG Advanced Surface Technologies LLC (New Albany, Ohio).
"Method of producing motor vehicles and tool suitable therefor" was invented by Helge Warta (Ditzingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing vehicles includes coating a vehicle body with paint, drying the paint, mounting attachment parts on load-bearing components of the vehicle body that has been coated with the paint that has been dried, and applying an adhesive film including an adhesive layer to a surface of the vehicle body that has been coated with the paint that has been dried or at least one attachment part ...