ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,046, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).
"Vehicle pane with a lighting device" was invented by Robert Pasquarelli (Stockdorf, Germany) and Georg Rossmair (Stockdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle pane with a light guide layer on the pane inner face and a lighting device which introduces light of a light source into the light guide layer by means of a light-coupling device. The light-coupling device has at least one light-coupling element that has a base surface and is optically connected to a light guide layer inner face, which faces the vehicle interior, via the base surface. The li...