ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,111, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Lighting device for a motor vehicle" was invented by Wolf Alexander Quitsch (Beckum, Germany), Alexander Schwan (Kamen, Germany), Ingo Wegener (Bad Wunnenberg-Helmern, Germany) and Mario Zehanciuc (Buren, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device is provided for a motor vehicle, and contains a light source with numerous light-emitting diodes with which pixels in a light distribution generated outside the motor vehicle are generated in a targeted manner. Each of the light-emitting diodes has a light-emitting surface. The light-emitting ...