US Patent Issued to Hella on Oct. 27 for "Lighting device for vehicles, and control method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,796, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Lighting device for vehicles, and control method" was invented by Hamza Akin (Lippstadt, Germany), Andreas Lintz (Lippstadt, Germany) and Maximilian Mevenkamp (Hamm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device for vehicles is provided with a housing with a lens that covers an opening in the housing. A light source unit is positioned inside the housing, and contains a plurality of light sources for generating a predefined light distribution. A control unit of the light source unit generates a control signal with which the light source uni...