US Patent Issued to Hella on Oct. 14 for "Headlamp for a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,504, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Headlamp for a motor vehicle" 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: "A headlamp includes adjacent light sources. A collimator contains adjacent collimating lenses, each with an entry and an exit surface. A secondary optical element has at least one transparent substrate with an entry and an exit surface. Two sections are adjacent to one another on the substrate. An array of cylindr...