ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,734, issued on April 7, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for producing a light pane for an illuminant, light pane, illuminant, and motor vehicle" was invented by Maximilian Manderscheid (Rohrbach, Germany) and Daniel Kugele (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a light pane for an illuminant, in particular for a luminaire or a headlight of a motor vehicle, comprising the steps of: providing a translucent base body of the light pane, reading out or receiving a printing pattern from or of a data source (6), wherein the printing pattern specifies a printing region of the base bo...