ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,418, issued on July 15, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for operating a lighting device of a motor vehicle, lighting device and motor vehicle" was invented by Werner Thomas (Oberwohr, Germany), Marc Maier (Collenberg, Germany), Christoph Haussinger (Eichstatt, Germany), Michael Horn (Ingolstadt, Germany), Daniel Ehrlichauf (Neuburg/Donan, Germany), Stephan Heider (Wettstetten, Germany) and Alexander Becker (Gungolding, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a lighting device for a motor vehicle, wherein the lighting device has at least an exterior lamp an...