US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Aug. 18 for "Exterior lighting system for a vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,219, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Exterior lighting system for a vehicle" was invented by Sebastien Nallet (Venerieu, France) and Raphael Ribero (Millery, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exterior lighting system for a vehicle comprising a lighting source configured to emit a light beam, the lighting source being part of one of existing exterior lights of the vehicle, an object being configured to have at least one active position and a passive position, the object being configured to modify the light beam in the at least one active position and to have no effect on the light bea...