ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,933, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Valeo Vision (Bobigny, France).

"Optical projection device comprising three lenses" was invented by Baptiste Paul (Bobigny, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an optical device for projecting light beams, capable of cooperating with a pixelated light source, including a plurality of selectively activatable emissive elements, which consists of the following components, arranged in succession along the path of the light rays from the source: a convergent first lens, a divergent or neutral second lens, a pupil and a convergent third lens."

The patent was filed on Nov. 21...