US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on June 3 for "Lighting component, transportation device and method for producing a lighting component" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,482, issued on June 3, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Lighting component, transportation device and method for producing a lighting component" was invented by Andreas Lang (Groebenzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting component for a transportation device includes a support layer arrangement of which at least some portions are light-permeable and which has a first layer. The first layer has a first index of refraction and a light guiding element made of polyurethane on a first surface of the first layer. The light guiding element has a second index of refraction which is greater than the first...