ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,121, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Valeo Vision (Bobigny, France).

"Optical element and light module of a motor vehicle equipped with such an optical element" was invented by Jean-Marc Colombel (Bobigny, France) and Antonin Barrau (Bobigny, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an optical element of a vehicle light module, the light module including at least one light source, the rays emitted from which pass through a transparent optical surface of the optical element and emerge in the form of a light beam, the transparent optical surface extending mainly along a transverse axis between a first...