ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,971, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Exterior lamps with system-based natural turbulation and anti-condensation" was invented by Michael Robertson (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Segundo Baldovino (Novi, Mich.), Aaron B. Johnson (Allen Park, Mich.) and Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes a lamp housing defining an interior cavity and at least one light component positioned within the interior cavity. At least one first turbulation feature is associated with the lamp housing and at least one second turbulation feature is associated with the...