ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,724, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Valeo Vision (Bobigny, France).

"Outer lens, corresponding vehicle lamp, vehicle, and method" was invented by Changqi Wu (Wuhan, China), Xihui Mo (Wuhan, China), Haiquan Chen (Wuhan, China), Weifang Huang (Wuhan, China), Yinfeng Cheng (Wuhan, China), Frederic Hayez (Wuhan, China) and Alexandre Franc (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A problem to be solved by an embodiment of the present application is how to make the structure of a vehicle lamp more compact. According to an embodiment of the present application, an outer lens is provided, wherein the outer lens comprises: a first len...