ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,160, issued on July 1, was assigned to VALEO VISION (Bobigny, France).

"Lighting device and headlamp for a vehicle with luminous modules and adjustment means" was invented by Jun Quan (Wuhan, China) and Nicolas Crasnier (Angers, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device for a headlamp of a vehicle includes a main mounting plate, and a plurality of separate luminous modules each mounted on an intermediate support. Each intermediate support is movably mounted relative to the main mounting plate about a pivot axis specific to the module in question. The device further includes at least one member for coupling an assembly or...