ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,389, issued on July 1, was assigned to Eberspacher catem GmbH & Co. KG (Herxheim, Germany).
"Optical device usable as a motor vehicle headlight" was invented by Michael Niederer (Kapellen-Drusweiler, Germany), Peter Scholz (Karlsruhe, Germany), Kurt Walz (Hagenbach, Germany) and Ralf Lothar Weinand (Worth am Rhein, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device usable as a headlight of a motor vehicle has an optical system in the form of a lens and/or a light source which is surrounded by a housing and which is covered by a translucent, in particular transparent, cover which is connected to the housing. To increase the funct...