ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,383, issued on May 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle headlight device having a pattern emitter" was invented by Masayoshi Takori (Tokyo), Shingo Nakayama (Tokyo), Tadahiro Matori (Tokyo) and Yuji Tsuchiya (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle headlight device including a low-beam lamp and a high-beam lamp that emit light into a first light distribution region that is in front of a vehicle, and a patterned-light emitter that emits light into a second light distribution region in an illumination pattern in which bright regions and dark regions alternately repeat, the second light distribution...