ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,531, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Valeo Vision (Bobigny, France).

"Motor-vehicle lighting module that produces a cutoff with a reflector the surface of which is partially grained" was invented by Julien Aubert (Bobigny, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a lighting module for an automotive vehicle. The lighting module includes a light source adapted to emit light rays, a collector with a reflective surface configured to reflect the light rays in a reflected beam, an optical device configured to project the reflected beam in a projected beam along an optical axis of the lighting module by imaging a ...