ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,551, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Lumus Ltd. (Ness Ziona, Israel).
"Light-guide device with optical cutoff edge and corresponding production methods" was invented by Yochay Danziger (Kfar Vradim, Israel) and Edgar Friedmann (Sdey-Avraham, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-guide device includes a light guiding element (13) with a number of faces, including two parallel faces (26), for guiding light by internal reflection. A transparent optical element (19) has an interface surface for attachment to a coupling surface (14) of the light guiding element, and is configured such that light propagating within the transpare...