US Patent Issued to Hella on Nov. 3 for "Lighting device for vehicles" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,940, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Lighting device for vehicles" was invented by Carsten Hohmann (Warstein, Germany), Martin Mugge (Geseke, Germany) and Burkhard Peitz (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device for vehicles is provided with a housing, a cover lens covering an opening in the housing, a light module containing a number of light sources, and an optical unit for generating a predefined light distribution. The optical unit contains an optical waveguide that has a light entry surface and a light emitting surface. The optical waveguide is connected to...