ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,390, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Marelli Germany GmbH (Reutlingen, Germany).

"Lighting device for illuminating or backlighting a light signature and lighting unit with an illuminatable or backlightable light signature and such a lighting device" was invented by Martin Licht (Reutlingen, Germany) and Sylvain Teysseyre (Reutlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device for illuminating or backlighting a light signature, comprising: at least one semiconductor light source for emitting light in a main radiation direction corresponding to an optical axis of the semiconductor light source, at least one partially...