ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,052, issued on April 29, was assigned to Motherson Innovations Co. Ltd. (London).

"Light assembly, vehicle design element, rear view device and door finisher" was invented by Shane Randell Koehne (Lonsdale, Australia), Gary Dekievit (Lonsdale, Australia) and Matthew Chapman-Winter (Lonsdale, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising a light assembly for illumination of a vehicle design element includes a plurality of light pipes, each comprising a core; one or more light sources, each of the one or more light sources being disposed adjacent to and directed toward one or more of the plurality of the light pipes, wher...