ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,311, issued on May 19, was assigned to Valeo Vision (Bobigny, France).

"System for projecting multiple light beams" was invented by Eric Moisy (Unterfohring, Germany), Marine Courcier (Unterfohring, Germany) and Stefan Namyslo (Unterfohring, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system for projecting light beams for a vehicle, including a first device configured to generate a first beam which performs a signaling function and a second device configured to generate at least a second beam for projecting a pattern, with the first device including at least one refractive optical member for shaping the first bea...