US Patent Issued to Hella on May 6 for "Illumination device for vehicles" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,170, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Illumination device for vehicles" was invented by Ansgar Gollnick (Paderborn, Germany) and Giuseppe Mattina (Lippstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination device for vehicles, having a housing, a cover lens, which closes an opening in the housing, an elongate light guide, a light source for coupling light into the elongate light guide, a groove-like receptacle for receiving the elongate light guide, an outcoupler for coupling out the light coupled into the elongate light guide. The outcoupler is arranged along part of a lateral surf...