ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,962, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle lighting device" was invented by Masayoshi Takori (Saitama, Japan) and Yuji Tsuchiya (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lighting device is provided which evokes caution of the approach of a vehicle at an early stage on the side of pedestrians irrespective of being day or night. A vehicle lighting device includes: a pattern irradiation part which irradiates irradiation light on a lateral irradiation region on a side of a travel path of one's own vehicle in a bright/dark mixed irradiation pattern in which bright regions and dark regions...