ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,965, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to ZKW Group GmbH (Wieselburg, Austria).
"Lattice animation" was invented by Reinaldo Arturo Zapata Pena (Leon, Mexico).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Signal lamp for a vehicle configured to create an illumination pattern. It includes an illuminant configured to emit parallel light, a first optical element configured to receive light from the illuminant, and a second optical element configured to receive light from the first optical element. The light entry surface of the first optical element has a plurality of concave cylinder diverging lenses (CDLs), wherein the light exit surface of the second ...