US Patent Issued to MA Lighting Technology on Dec. 16 for "Emulating a spotlight that is partially covered by a mask" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,790, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MA Lighting Technology GmbH (Waldbuttelbrunn, Germany).

"Emulating a spotlight that is partially covered by a mask" was invented by Matthias Finke (Hochheim am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device emulate a headlamp that is partially covered by a mask. In order to make it possible to implement a lighting design that is independent of any pre-settings in the headlamps using inexpensive and readily available lighting components while retaining existing lighting control protocols, a two-dimensional pattern is retrieved from a pattern memory in accordance with a patter...