ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,926, issued on April 1, was assigned to Ichikoh Industries Ltd. (Isehara, Japan).

"Vehicular lamp system and vehicular lamp" was invented by Kazunori Iwasaki (Isehara, Japan), Hidemaru Koyano (Isehara, Japan), Yuichiro Washi (Isehara, Japan) and Harumi Mochimaru (Isehara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a vehicular lamp system and a vehicular lamp which can reduce a replacement frequency of the vehicular lamp. The vehicular lamp system includes a vehicular lamp having a plurality of elements capable of irradiating a corresponding irradiation region with light and a detection unit that detects presence or absence of an...