ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,605, issued on March 4, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Method for constructing an optical functional unit" was invented by Bernd Fischer (Altenbeken, Germany) and Thorsten Kleinelumern (Langenberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for constructing an optical functional unit that has an optical component. The optical component has a surface, on which an opaque coating is applied, through which light passes. Portions of the opaque coating are removed from the surface forming at least one window through which the light from at least one light source can pass. A frame is provided t...