ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,224, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Light guide enabled chrome appearance lamp" was invented by Bradley Allen Newcomb (Troy, Mich.), Jonglee Park (Novi, Mich.), Helgert Elezi (Warren, Mich.), Daniel W. Booth (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Julien P. Mourou (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and Xiaosong Huang (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light guide enabled lamp includes a light guide. A light source positioned at an edge of the light guide directs light generated by energizing the light source throughout a length of the light guide reflective layer disposed on the light guide. A...