ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,976, issued on March 3, was assigned to ZKW Group GmbH (Wieselburg, Austria).

"Illumination system for a vehicle" was invented by Markus Zeuner (Mank, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Illumination system (1) for a vehicle, including at least one lighting device (2), including at least two, individually controllable, light sources (3a, 3b), and a lens element (4), arranged downstream of the two light sources, and a vehicle body component (5). The lens element is configured to emit a first light bundle and a second light bundle towards the vehicle body component, respectively. The vehicle body component includes an opaque section...