US Patent Issued to GENTEX on Dec. 23 for "Rearview assembly for a vehicle having visibly opaque optical element for reflecting infrared light" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,049, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GENTEX Corp. (Zeeland, Mich.).

"Rearview assembly for a vehicle having visibly opaque optical element for reflecting infrared light" was invented by Kasen K. Anderson (Jenison, Mich.), Richard T. Fish Jr. (Hudsonvile, Mich.), Steven J. Veenman (Hudsonville, Mich.), Michael F. Lisowski (Holland, Mich.) and Joshua D. Lintz (Allendale, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rearview assembly for a vehicle is provided including a reflective element; an infrared illumination source configured to emit infrared light through the reflective element to illuminate a field of view; and an optical element ...