ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,188, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Illumination apparatus for a motor vehicle" was invented by Stefan Groene (Brakel, Germany), Carsten Hohmann (Warstein, Germany) and Martin Muegge (Geseke, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination apparatus for a motor vehicle, the illumination apparatus having a printed circuit board having a plurality of light-emitting diodes arranged thereon. An optical lens plate and a reflector element are provided with the reflector element being arranged between the printed circuit board and the optical lens plate. The reflector element has a p...