ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,458, issued on April 14, was assigned to ZKW Group GmbH (Wieselburg, Austria).

"Light for a vehicle" was invented by Christian Jackl (Wieselburg, Austria) and Lars Amundsson (St. Valentin, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lamp (1) for a vehicle, which lamp (1) has an image generator (2), a projection system (3) and an adaptive aperture device (4), wherein the aperture device (4) has a first opening (5) in a first plane (6) and a second opening (7) in a second plane (8) along the beam path, wherein, during operation of the lamp (1), a beam (20) is reduced through the first opening (5) to a first portion of the beam and this f...