ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,959, issued on July 1, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).
"Vehicle window with a lighting device" was invented by Julian Knopfle (Stockdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle window pane includes a light guide layer and a lighting device which introduces light from a lamp into the light guide layer via a light-incoupling unit arranged on the light guide layer. The lamp is mounted on a support plate and a fastening device keeps the support plate positioned in such a position on the light-incoupling unit in which the lamp is correctly positioned to radiate light into the light-incoupling unit. A covering whi...