US Patent Issued to Valeo Vision on March 18 for "Lens, vehicle lamp and corresponding vehicle" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,246, issued on March 18, was assigned to Valeo Vision (Bobigny, France).

"Lens, vehicle lamp and corresponding vehicle" was invented by Wenqing Chen (Wuhan, China), Changqi Wu (Wuhan, China), Weifang Huang (Wuhan, China) and Xiaoling Zhang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens, a vehicle lamp, and a corresponding vehicle, the lens including a lens portion with a touch area and an antenna portion including a flange portion, the antenna portion being electrically conductive and at least partially opposite to the touch area. When the touch area of the lens provided with the antenna portion is touched, the capacitance of a...