US Patent Issued to Volkswagen, AUDI on Nov. 25 for "Method for controlling a lighting device of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,359, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany) and AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for controlling a lighting device of a motor vehicle" was invented by Mark Bennemann (Falkensee, Germany) and Tobias Moll (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques for controlling a lighting device of a motor vehicle, which includes at least one display surface and/or at least one lighting unit. At least one image capable of being provided by a mobile terminal and/or by an external computing device automatically selected; image data describing the at least one selected image is re...