US Patent Issued to Plastic Omnium Lighting Systems on April 29 for "Optical device and method for producing same" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,077, issued on April 29, was assigned to Plastic Omnium Lighting Systems GmbH (Munich).

"Optical device and method for producing same" was invented by Fabio Fioravanti (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing an optical device (1) comprising at least one light source (16), at least one light guide (10) having an entry surface (11) facing the light source (16), and having an exit surface (12) formed at an end of the light guide (10) lying opposite the entry surface (11), in order to allow light entering into the light guide (10) to exit same, and a projection optics (20) which ...