ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,376, issued on July 14, was assigned to FEV Group GmbH (Aachen, Germany).

"Projection device for generating dynamic projections" was invented by Felix Von Laffert (Osnabruck, Germany), Martin Mueller (Osnabruck, Germany) and Alf Riedel (Osnabruck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projection device for generating dynamic projections includes: an arrangement of multiple light sources spaced apart from each other; a collimation optic for generating a parallel beam path from the light sources and a microlens array arrangement within the beam path of the collimation lens. The focal length of the lenses at the illumination side of ...