ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,975, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Method for operating a lighting apparatus of a motor vehicle" was invented by Sebastian Bartscher (Hamm, Germany), Florian Herold (Bielefeld, Germany), Ingo Moellers (Rietberg, Germany) and Martin Pluempe (Paderborn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a lighting apparatus of a vehicle. A temperature of the light source is recorded while the first light distribution is generated, a temperature change of the light source which is expected to emerge during the transition from the first to the second light distribution is calcul...