ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,420, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ZKW Group GmbH (Wieselburg, Austria).
"Optical device for motor vehicle" was invented by Mikayel Musheghyan (Wieselburg, Austria), Peter Hartmann (Schonbuhel an der Donau, Austria) and Patrick Schmidt (Wieselburg, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device (1) for a motor vehicle, for projecting a graphic element into a region in front of the optical device. The device includes a laser light source (2), an infrared light source (3), a light guiding device (4), an infrared detector (5), a time-of-flight sensor device (6), and a control device (7), wherein the light guiding device is ...