ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,775, issued on April 22, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).
"Lighting device for a motor vehicle" was invented by Bernhard Kreipe (Hannover, Germany) and Christian Studeny (Schoeppenstedt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device for a motor vehicle, having at least one light guide, which is formed planar, and having at least one illuminant. Light rays from the illuminant can be coupled or are coupled into the light guide via a light incoupling surface assigned to the light guide. Incoupled light rays are deflected via at least one light outcoupling structure of the light guide in the direction of at l...