US Patent Issued to AUDI on July 15 for "Method for illuminating vehicle surroundings, and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,416, issued on July 15, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for illuminating vehicle surroundings, and motor vehicle" was invented by Valentin Schmidt (Neuburg an der Donau, Germany), Tilman Armbruster (Ingolstadt, Germany), Johannes Reim (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Marcel Debelec (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for illuminating vehicle surroundings of a motor vehicle that comprises an illumination device and a detection device, wherein the illumination device is set up to illuminate at least part of a solid angle region of the vehicle surroundings with different illumination patterns, in...