ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,104, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Headlight for a motor vehicle" was invented by Arnd-Claus Buechner (Lippstadt, Germany), Frank Grueter (Lippetal, Germany), Wolf Alexander Quitsch (Beckum, Germany), Peter Rausch (Muenster, Germany), Martin Rode (Braunschweig, Germany), Burkhard Topp (Soest, Germany) and Mario Zehanciuc (Bueren, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headlight for a motor vehicle, comprising a first luminous surface, wherein the headlight is configured so that light emanates from the first luminous surface and is used to generate a high-beam light distribution. A s...