ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,993, issued on July 8, was assigned to Audi AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Optical fiber apparatus" was invented by Philip Hupfer (Burgthann, Germany) and Wolfgang Schermer (Thalmassing, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber apparatus, including an optical fiber with at least two separate input guide sections provided at one end with a cross-section which is given at least in sections and comprises an edge section having a first radius, which converge and successively unite via a merging section to form a common main guide section with a cross-section which is given at least in sections ...