US Patent Issued to Magna Exteriors on May 6 for "Vehicle illumination device with edge-lit light guide and colored mask" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,144, issued on May 6, was assigned to Magna Exteriors GmbH (Sailauf, Germany).

"Vehicle illumination device with edge-lit light guide and colored mask" was invented by Johannes Goetzelmann (Altertheim, Germany), Klaus Muenker (Griesstaett, Germany), Michael Wurster (Esslingen, Germany) and Tobias Weyer (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination for a motor vehicle includes a light-guide, a housing element, and a light source. The light-guide is arranged in the housing, with the light source arranged to project light into a side face of the light-guide. An air gap is formed between a colored coating, provided in ...