ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,855, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to VIGNAL SYSTEMS (Corbas, France).

"Optical device for a light signal lamp comprising a transparent block of material with an ogive shaped light output portion" was invented by Vivien Schott (Pont-Eveque, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The optical device is intended to be placed in a housing to form a light signal lamp for a vehicle. The optical device includes, along the longitudinal direction: an input portion receiving rays emitted by a light source; a middle portion having two lateral faces spaced from each other along a transverse direction; an output portion including an output face th...