ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,770, issued on April 22, was assigned to VALEO VISION (Bobigny, France).

"Luminous module that images the illuminated surface of a collector" was invented by Sylvain Giraud (Angers, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a light module, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising a light source capable of emitting light rays; a collector with a reflective surface configured to collect and reflect the light rays emitted by the light source into a light beam along an optical axis of the module; an optical system configured to project the light beam. The collector is configured so that a portion of the light ray...