ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,796, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ZKW Group GmbH (Wieselburg, Austria).

"Illumination device for a motor vehicle headlight and motor vehicle headlight" was invented by Donghyun Go (Incheon, South Korea), Namseok Oh (Goyang-si, South Korea), Yongkyo Kim (Incheon-si, South Korea) and Alexander Thomas Schager (Scheibbs, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination device for a motor vehicle headlight for producing light distribution with a cut-off line. The device includes a light-permeable body, a light injection element and a light source, wherein the light injection element is designed to inject light emitted by the lig...