ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,648, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Light guide assembly for a vehicle" was invented by Jari Oikarinen (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Daniel Alejandro Torres Espinosa (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light guide assembly, including: a light guide; a first light source optically coupled to the light guide; and a second light source optically coupled to the light guide; where the light guide includes a first section adapted to extract light from the first light source, but not the second light source, thereby illuminating the first section; and where the light guide includes a ...