ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,122, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Grote Industries Inc. (Madison, Ind.).
"Deicing system for an automotive lamp" was invented by Jiabiao Ruan (Madison, Ind.), Sankalp Pampattiwar (Madison, Ind.), Ammar Ali (Madison, Ind.) and Cesar Perez-Bolivar (Madison, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lamp or lens assembly for a motor vehicle that includes electrically conductive traces for defogging or deicing the lens. Aspects include a light transmissive lens coupled to a lamp housing. The light transmissive lens may define a curved cross-section with a curvature extending across the length and/or the width of the lens. The lens ma...