ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,012, issued on May 5, was assigned to FEV Group GmbH (Aachen, Germany) and UPT-Optik Wodak GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany).

"Optical device and injection molding method for producing same" was invented by Steffen Jentsch (Osnabruck, Germany), Martin Mueller (Osnabruck, Germany), Horst Wodak (Nuremberg, Germany) and Martin Rummelein (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes: a transparent substrate and a coherent transparent layer enclosing the substrate in at least three places, which: forms a plurality of first optical lenses on a first surface and forms a plurality of second optical lenses on a second su...