ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,997, issued on May 26, was assigned to Valeo Vision (Bobigny, France).

"Reconfigurable light that provides multiple different light configurations from a single housing and controlling the reconfigurable light" was invented by Andrew Massey (Seymour, Ind.) and Mark Verplank (Seymour, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light including: a first segment including: first lights with first states and first lights with second states; a second segment including: second lights with first states and second lights with second states; a third segment including: third lights with first states and third lights with second states; and wherein th...