US Patent Issued to Hella on April 21 for "Running light for a vehicle" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,317, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Running light for a vehicle" was invented by Rainer Pfingstl (Stegersbach, Austria) and Niko Thomanek (Soest, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A running light for a vehicle includes at least one light source, a number of first optical waveguides on a first side, a number of second optical waveguides on a second side opposite the first side. One of the first waveguides emits light from the at least one light source in both the main beam direction, which runs along a main axis orthogonal to a secondary axis connecting the first side and second ...