ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,453, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Marelli Automotive Lighting Italy S.p.A. Con Socio Unico (Venaria Reale, Italy).

"System and method to control the quality of a reflector body of a lamp for motor vehicles" was invented by Sara Paroni (Tolmezzo, Italy), Marco Svettini (Tolmezzo, Italy), Mirco Del Linz (Tolmezzo, Italy) and Tommaso Fontanot (Tolmezzo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system to control the quality of at least one reflector body of a lamp of a motor vehicle, comprising a light source, which is designed to emit a first light beam to irradiate the reflecting surface of the reflector body; an image captur...