ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,323, issued on July 21, was assigned to Valeo Vision (Bobigny, France).

"Lighting and signalling device for a motor vehicle" was invented by Remi Monnier (Bobigny, France), Sebastien Roels (Bobigny, France) and Pierre Albou (Bobigny, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates mainly to a lighting and signalling device including at least one luminous module capable of generating a lighting beam along a longitudinal optical axis and an optical element through which the lighting beam is projected. The lighting and signalling device includes a controllable liquid-crystal screen pressed against the optical element...