ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,316, issued on May 12, was assigned to Valeo Vision (Bobigny, France).

"Display of light patterns on a flexible guide sheet" was invented by Eduardo Alvear (Bobigny, France), Sidahmed Beddar (Bobigny, France), Benoit Delande (Bobigny, France) and Hafid El-Idrissi (Bobigny, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a lighting module including an assembly of at least one flexible guide sheet, each flexible guide sheet of the assembly being suitable for receiving light rays at an edge of the flexible guide sheet and for reflecting the light rays in a direction substantially normal to a surface of the flexible guide s...