ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,822, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich) and Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena (Jena, Germany).

"Low beam headlight with beam forming optics for generating a light dark distribution with oblique extending edges" was invented by Leo Maximilian Wilhelm (Jena, Germany), Peter Schreiber (Jena, Germany) and Dmitrii Stefanidi (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-beam headlight includes a light source arrangement for generating a light cone consisting of light that is less divergent in a first transverse direction than in a second transverse direct...