US Patent Issued to ZKW Group on April 14 for "Lighting device for a motor vehicle" (Czech Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,455, issued on April 14, was assigned to ZKW Group GmbH (Wieselburg, Austria).

"Lighting device for a motor vehicle" was invented by Martin Hamar (Olomouc, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a lighting device for a motor vehicle, the lighting device including a light source and a transparent light guide body with a light coupling region. Light emitted by the light source passes an edge and is deflected from a first light deflection surface to a second light deflection surface and from there to a light emitting surface. In vertical sections through the light guide body, the first light deflection s...