US Patent Issued to Marelli Germany on Aug. 11 for "Lighting unit and motor vehicle lighting device with such a lighting unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,234, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Marelli Germany GmbH (Reutlingen, Germany).

"Lighting unit and motor vehicle lighting device with such a lighting unit" was invented by Martin Tomas (Reutlingen, Germany), Sebastian Pfaff (Reutlingen, Germany) and Michael Scholl (Reutlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a lighting unit for use in conjunction with a light module of a motor vehicle lighting device. The light module is designed to produce a dimmed light distribution with a substantially horizontal cut-off line. The lighting unit has a light source that can be switched independently from the light...