ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,482, issued on June 17, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).
"Optical member" was invented by Yujiro Mizobuchi (Nisshin, Japan), Hiroshi Ando (Nisshin, Japan) and Kazuyuki Ishihara (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical member includes a light guide. An inclination angle of a first reflecting surface of the light guide with respect to a first direction perpendicular to a normal direction of the first reflecting surface is defined as Gammar in a rotational direction about an axis extending in the normal direction. A line segm...