ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,144, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Lumileds Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Optics for slim style head lighting" was invented by Floris Maria Hermansz Crompvoets (Bunde, Netherlands) and Andreas Timinger (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system is provided. The optical system includes a light emitting diode that generates light emissions. The optical system includes a collimator that receives the light emissions and that generates a collimated beam. The optical system includes an etendue re-shaper that splits the collimated beam into beam parts and that arranges the beam parts adjacent to each other to...