ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,364, issued on July 7, was assigned to Valeo Vision (Bobigny, France).

"Electronic assembly for an automotive luminuos device and automotive luminous device" was invented by Juan Jose Santaella Hernandez (Martos, Spain), Juan Antonio Lopez (Martos, Spain), Juan Moris Gomez (Martos, Spain), Alberto Gonzalez Rico (Martos, Spain) and Maria Carmen Montenegro Sanzhez (Martos, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention presents an electronic assembly for an automotive luminous device (10) comprising a light source (1), a driver (3) to control the light source (1) and an input protection circuit (2). The input protection circuit (2) ...