ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,393, issued on April 15, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Lighting device for a motor vehicle" was invented by Bernd Fischer (Altenbeken, Germany), Carsten Hohmann (Warstein, Germany), Marc Kaup (Paderborn, Germany) and Martin Mugge (Geseke, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device for a motor vehicle includes numerous light sources and a collimator with numerous collimator lenses. Each collimator lens has an entry surface and an exit surface through which light from the light sources passes successively. Projection optics include a first and second transparent substrates, each with an entry...