ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,076, issued on March 4, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Light-emitting device and method for emitting light" was invented by Gael Pilard (Wankheim, Germany), Hendrik Specht (Pliezhausen, Germany), Martin Edel (Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany), Sebastian Reiss (Reutlingen, Germany) and Simon Pick (Tuebingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting device, having a laser light device that is designed to emit a multiplicity of laser light beams. Ellipticities of beam cross-sections of the laser light beams differ at least partly from one another. The light-emitting device includes a beamforming devi...