ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,793, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Lighting device for a motor vehicle" was invented by Martin Muegge (Geseke, Germany) and Thomas Rettweiler (Lippstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device for a motor vehicle, having at least one light source, a planar light guide with an input surface and at least one output surface. The input surface is formed in particular as a front surface of the light guide. The lighting device is set up so that the light generated by the at least one light source enters the light guide at least partially through the input surface so that t...