US Patent Issued to Hella on July 28 for "Method and device for producing recesses in the coating of transparent components of a lighting device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,526, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Method and device for producing recesses in the coating of transparent components of a lighting device" was invented by Alexander Stammeier (Rietberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing recesses in a coating of transparent components of a lighting device, wherein the recess is produced by locally removing the coating using a laser beam. A first coating is removed on a front face of the component using a laser beam which is directed from the front face of the first coating onto the component, and a second coating is removed ...