ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,451, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Lighting device for vehicles" was invented by Carsten Hohmann (Warstein, Germany), Katrin Hunecke (Bad Sassendorf, Germany), Yves Alexander Leier (Lippstadt, Germany), Michael Schoene (Lippstadt, Germany) and Sophia Sieding (Dortmund, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device comprising a first light unit having a light source and a first flat light guide having a linear light coupling surface and a light decoupling surface. A second light unit has a light source and a second flat light guide having a linear light coupling surface and ...