ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,349, issued on June 10, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"External lighting device for a motor vehicle" was invented by Markus Klug (Ingolstadt, Germany), Tobias Moll (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Johannes Scheuchenpflug (Baar-Ebenhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A design screen and at least one detection device with an image capturing device and a carrier medium are provided in an external lighting device for a motor vehicle. The carrier medium is a flat waveguide on which a coupling region and a decoupling region are provided. The carrier medium is adapted to the surface shape of the design screen. The coupl...