ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,783, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HELLA GMBH & Co. KGAA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Headlamp for vehicles" was invented by Gerhard Kloos (Erwitte, Germany), Philip Stroop (SchloB Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany), Benjamin Willeke (Paderborn, Germany) and Rimma Zhytnytska (Lippstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a headlamp for vehicles with a light source for emitting a light beam and with an optical unit containing a projection lens which deflects a first part of the light beam for generation of a light distribution with a light/dark boundary. A second part of the light beam emitted by the light source is...