US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Feb. 4 for "Function module for at least one light function and/or at least one sensor function having a first frame that is movable relative to a second frame" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,715, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Function module for at least one light function and/or at least one sensor function having a first frame that is movable relative to a second frame" was invented by Dominik Behnsen (Dasing, Germany), Josef Gruebl (Neumarkt-St.Veit, Germany), Andreas Lang (Groebenzell, Germany) and Martin Riedner (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A function module includes at least one lighting unit and/or at least one sensor unit. The function module also includes a covering panel through which light from the at least one lighting unit emerges from the function module a...