ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,741, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Support frame for a vehicle lighting device" was invented by Frank Brinkmeier (Lippstadt, Germany), Michael Lakenbrink (Oelde, Germany), Thomas Thesing (Lippstadt, Germany), Thomas Wiese (Lippstadt, Germany), Odo Karger (Geseke, Germany), Sven Kinkel (Borchen, Germany) and Konrad Schuerhoff (Rietberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support frame for components of a vehicle lighting device, especially for a housing or for a light module. The support frame features a sandwich structure of at least two metallic sheet members in parallel arrange...