US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 27 for "Vehicle marker lighting device having a light pipe" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,833, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle marker lighting device having a light pipe" was invented by Aaron Bradley Johnson (Allen Park, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle marker lighting device includes a light source. The light source has an elongate light pipe with a first end operatively coupled to the light source and a second end having a metalized surface. The light pipe further has a plurality of prism optics extending into an outside surface of the elongate body. An inner lens is operatively coupled to the light pipe to receive light reflected from the plurali...