US Patent Issued to AUDI on June 17 for "Lighting device for a motor vehicle, motor vehicle and method for operating a lighting device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,550, issued on June 17, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Lighting device for a motor vehicle, motor vehicle and method for operating a lighting device" was invented by Werner Thomas (Oberwohr, Germany), Ernst Reiter (Ingolstadt, Germany), Ashley Gleave (Buxheim, Germany) and Christoph Haussinger (Eichstatt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a lighting device for a motor vehicle having at least one exterior light and a control device. The exterior light has an illuminated area having at least two independently controllable segments, each comprising at least one light source, wherei...