ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,046, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Headlamp for vehicles and projection method" was invented by Boris Kubitza (Mohnesee-Korbecke, Germany) and Carsten Wilks (Lippstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headlamp for vehicles that has a light source unit. Numerous light sources and/or light guides are controllable individually. A sensor unit for detects headlamp status data and/or vehicle environment data. A control unit for controlling the light sources and/or light guides generates a predefined light distribution for the headlamp. The range of the headlamp can be adjusted on t...