US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 14 for "Vehicle headlight device having a low beam. a high beam and pattern emitter that emits light into a light distribution region having bright and dark regions" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,233, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle headlight device having a low beam. a high beam and pattern emitter that emits light into a light distribution region having bright and dark regions" was invented by Masayoshi Takori (Tokyo), Tadahiro Matori (Tokyo), Shingo Nakayama (Tokyo) and Yuji Tsuchiya (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle headlight device comprising: a low-beam lamp and a high-beam lamp that illuminates a first light distribution region that is in front of the vehicle with light; and a patterned-light emitter that illuminates a second light distribution region wit...