ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,611, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).
"Optical member" was invented by Kazuyuki Ishihara (Nisshin, Japan) and Masatoshi Tsuji (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical member includes a light guide body and a light shielding member. The light guide body includes an incident surface on which a light from a blind area is incident, a first reflecting surface configured to reflect the light from the incident surface, a second reflecting surface configured to reflect the light reflected by the first reflecti...