US Patent Issued to ZKW Group on March 3 for "Lighting device for a vehicle" (Czech Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,975, issued on March 3, was assigned to ZKW Group GmbH (Wieselburg, Austria).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device for vehicles including a light source, a transparent light guide body with a light coupling area and a projection optics device. The shape of the lower light deflection surface deviates from the shape of a base surface. The shape of the base surface is such that if the lower light deflection surface would not deviate from the shape of the base surface in form of the first facet, the light reflected from the base surface woul...