ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,040, issued on Dec. 23, 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 can sufficiently improve overlooking of pedestrians by a driver. A vehicle lighting device of the present invention includes: a forward irradiation part (low-beam unit) that irradiates a forward irradiation region (low-beam irradiation region) of a vehicle; a lateral irradiation part (second cornering light unit) that irradiates a lateral irradiation region (right-side second corneri...