ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,231, issued on June 10, was assigned to ZKW Group GmbH (Wieselburg, Austria).

"Projection and illumination device for a motor vehicle headlamp" was invented by Josef Gurtl (Kilb, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Projection device (10) for a motor vehicle headlight, wherein the projection device (10) comprises the following: a light entry micro-optics array (100), comprising micro entrance optics, a light emitting micro-optics array (200), comprising micro exit optics, a substrate layer (300), on which the at least one light entry micro-optics array (100) is arranged on a first side (310) of the substrate layer (300) and the at ...