US Patent Issued to ZKW Group on May 13 for "Illumination device for a motor vehicle headlight and motor vehicle headlight" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,971, issued on May 13, was assigned to ZKW Group GmbH (Wieselburg, Austria).

"Illumination device for a motor vehicle headlight and motor vehicle headlight" was invented by Markus Danner (Ollersdorf, Austria), Erwin Lumetsberger (Nochling, Austria) and Jorg Bachler (Leiben, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination device (100) for a motor vehicle headlight, with an optical body (1) and a plurality of light guiding bodies (2), wherein the light guiding bodies merge into the optical body with their light exit surfaces (2b) in an optical body merging surface (11) opposite an optical body light exit surface (10) of the opti...