ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,748, issued on May 13, was assigned to VALEO VISION (Bobigny, France).
"Light guide for the illumination of a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle" was invented by Pierre-Louis Tassy (Bobigny, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light guide for the illumination of a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle includes a light inlet portion and a light outlet portion. The light inlet portion includes at least two light inlet faces and the light outlet portion includes at least two light outlet faces. The light inlet portion has at least one slot disposed between two light inlet faces, a groove separating two light outlet faces ex...