ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,232, issued on June 10, was assigned to ZKW Group GmbH (Wieselburg, Austria).
"Lighting device for vehicle headlamp" was invented by Christian Knobloch (Persenbeug-Gottsdorf, Austria), Markus Danner (Ollersdorf, Austria) and Patrick Schmidt (Wieselburg, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device for a vehicle headlamp includes a plurality of light sources; a first lens element (FLE) downstream of the light sources; and a second lens element (SLE) downstream of the FLE. A light receiving surface (LRS) of the FLE is formed by a main-area and a sub-area. The light sources and LRS are distanced to each other whereby a first...