US Patent Issued to Hella on Feb. 24 for "Lighting device for vehicles" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,299, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Lighting device for vehicles" was invented by Marcus Gattwinkel (Lippstadt, Germany), Burkhard Peitz (Paderborn, Germany) and Dirk Wilmes (Geseke, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device for vehicles contains a flat optical waveguide, which has opposing flat sides and narrow sides connecting them, with numerous microstructure elements on a flat side of the optical waveguide. A number of light sources are positioned on one of the narrow sides of the optical waveguide, and a number of optical films are positioned on the light emission ...