US Patent Issued to ZKW Group on Oct. 7 for "Lens system including distance means for a vehicle headlamp" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,356, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ZKW Group GmbH (Wieselburg, Austria).

"Lens system including distance means for a vehicle headlamp" was invented by Hans-Jorg Riegler (Petzenkirchen, Austria), Christian Jackl (Wieselburg, Austria) and Alexander Hacker (Wilhelmsburg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lens system (1) for a vehicle headlamp, wherein the lens system (1) comprises a light source (2), an array (3) of consecutively arranged lenses (3a, 3b, 3c), and a lens holding member (4), which is configured to encase the array (3) of lenses, wherein an entrance lens (3a), a first distance means (5a), at least one intermediate ...