ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,236, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Lighting device for a motor vehicle" was invented by David Duhme (Lippetal, Germany) and Franz-Georg Willeke (Anrochte, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device is provided for a motor vehicle, and contains numerous light modules for generating a different lighting functions. A segmented liquid-crystal display is placed in front of the light modules in the direction in which light is emitted, and that can be backlit, in which each segment of the LCD has a dedicated light module or group of light modules."
The patent was filed on May ...