ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,484, issued on June 3, was assigned to Flex-N-Gate France (Audincourt, France).
"Luminous device for a vehicle" was invented by Stephanie Bergerat (Audincourt, France) and Olivier Pujol (Belfort, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A luminous device that includes: an illuminated element having an illuminated zone and an opaque zone adjacent the illuminated zone; and a lighting device arranged to illuminate the illuminated zone extending on the side of the inner surface of the illuminated element. The outer surface of the illuminated zone has a rounded shape forming a convex protuberance on the outer surface of the illuminated elemen...