ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,308, issued on May 19, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Lens holding arrangement" was invented by Herbert Cramer (Ruthen, Germany), Florian Herold (Bielefeld, Germany), Rainer Kauschke (Lippstadt, Germany), Frank PaBgang (Lippstadt, Germany), Christian Schimon (Lippstadt, Germany), Sonja Seibt (Warburg, Germany), Jurgen Wessling (Geseke, Germany) and Martin Wuller (Warendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens holding arrangement for lenses of an illumination device for vehicles is provided. The holding arrangement includes a surrounding body which surrounds a number of lenses arranged coaxially ...