US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Feb. 17 for "Lighting device for the exterior of a motor vehicle having a profile for retaining a light guide" (Italian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,586, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Lighting device for the exterior of a motor vehicle having a profile for retaining a light guide" was invented by Markus Halm (Baldham, Germany) and Fabio Leone (Tolmezzo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device includes a housing with a translucent cover panel and one or more flexible light guides arranged at least partly in the housing. Each light guide contains one or more fibers which extend between two ends of the respective light guide. A lighting apparatus for supplying light is provided at one end of each light guide, and the supplie...