US Patent Issued to AUDI on Oct. 14 for "Motor vehicle lighting device with a plurality of light sources with respective paired cover segments which can be switched so as to be opaque; motor vehicle; and method" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,237, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Motor vehicle lighting device with a plurality of light sources with respective paired cover segments which can be switched so as to be opaque; motor vehicle; and method" was invented by Jacques Helot (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a motor vehicle lighting device comprising a lighting element with a plurality of light sources and a cover element which is designed to change between a transparent operating state and an opaque operating state. In order to allow an improved display of contours on a motor vehicle ...