ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,183, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Lighting module for a vehicle" was invented by Michael Aichinger-Rosenberger (Spitz / Donau, Austria), Tomas Losak (Breclav, Czech Republic), Rainer Pfingstl (Stegersbach, Austria) and Raimund Kerschbaummayr (Golling, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting module for use in a lighting device for a vehicle includes at least one projection module for generating a light distribution in the vehicle's environment. At least one light source module is also provided. The projection module contains numerous projection units. The light source modu...