US Patent Issued to Hella on Jan. 20 for "Method for producing an optical component and an optical component" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,461, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Method for producing an optical component and an optical component" was invented by Bernd Fischer (Altenbeken, Germany) and Ralf Rochotzki (Lippstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an optical component of a lighting device for vehicles, wherein a base body is made of a translucent or transparent material, a screen coating is applied to an outer surface of the base body by vapor deposition or by sputtering of a coating material, wherein the screen coating is applied as a reflective coating, wherein, during the applicati...