ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,228, issued on March 18, was assigned to ZKW Group GmbH (Wieselburg, Austria).

"Lighting device for a motor vehicle headlight" was invented by Ulrich Galander (Dunkelsteinerwald, Austria), Jakob Puhringer (Vienna) and Benedikt Krist (Guntramsdorf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Illumination device (10) for a motor vehicle headlight for producing segmented full beam distribution (FL), wherein the illumination device (10) comprises the following for this purpose: an optical element (100), comprising light guiding bodies (200) for forming the definable segment full beam distribution (FL), which light guiding bodies (200) respec...