ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,195, issued on June 3, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Headlamp for a vehicle" was invented by Marius Dan Anghel (Preajba, Romania), Stefan Kaiser (Soest, Germany) and Fabian Kopka (Wadersloh, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headlamp for a vehicle, having: an LED unit for providing a headlamp beam and a control unit for controlling the LED unit. To this end, provision is made according to the invention that the LED unit has a coding resistance that is designed to identify the headlamp as a left headlamp or as a right headlamp."

The patent was filed on Aug. 17, 2022, under Application No. 17/889,4...