ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,890, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Lighting device for vehicles" was invented by Arnd-Claus Buechner (Lippstadt, Germany), Florian Herold (Bielefeld, Germany), Alexander Schwan (Kamen, Germany) and Sebastian Voelker (Delbrueck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device for vehicles having a light source unit and having an optical unit that contains a reflector with at least one reflector surface for creating a specified light distribution, wherein the light source unit has a first light source that is arranged in a focal point region of the reflector surface. A second l...