ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,767, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Lighting device for a motor vehicle having a collimiation optical system and a secondary optical unit with sequential lens arrays" was invented by Bernd Fischer (Altenbeken, Germany) and Christian Schmidt (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device for a motor vehicle, in particular a headlight for a motor vehicle, comprising a plurality of light sources from which light is emitted during operation of the lighting device, and a collimation optical system that includes a plurality of collimating lenses, each having an entry su...