US Patent Issued to Hella on Aug. 11 for "Testing method for headlamps, and testing device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,300, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Testing method for headlamps, and testing device" was invented by Florian Herold (Bielefeld, Germany), Ingo Mollers (Rietberg, Germany), Wolf Alexander Quitsch (Beckum, Germany), Dieter Schiller (Geseke, Germany), Alexander Schwan (Kamen, Germany) and Johannes Wiedenstritt (Wadersloh, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quality testing method is provided for a light source in a headlamp, in which the light source contains a matrix of light pixels that can be controlled individually. The light pixels are activated individually according to a test...