ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,175, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Cover lens for a vehicle lighting device" was invented by Maximilian Mevenkamp (Hamm, Germany), Burkhard Hesse (Erwitte, Germany), Hamza Akin (Lippstadt, Germany) and Ethayakkannan Shanmugavel (Tamilnadu, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cover lens for a vehicle lighting device is provided, and includes a visual section which is transparent and designated to form the light exit aperture of the lighting device. The cover lens also includes a blank section which is opaque and/or which is designated to be invisible from the exterior of the lighting ...