ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,250, issued on May 12, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Illuminated body for a lamp of a vehicle, lamp of a vehicle and method for setting an electric current of a light source of an illuminated body" was invented by Martin Dobrescu (Herne, Germany), Christian Schlump (Lippstadt, Germany) and Patrick Vogel (Unna, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illuminated body is provided for a lamp of a vehicle, and includes at least one carrier body, at least one light source arranged on the carrier body, at least one sensor unit for detecting a temperature, and at least one control unit for setting an electric...