ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,983, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Ichikoh Industries Ltd. (Isehara, Japan).
"Vehicle lamp" was invented by Yasuhiro Okubo (Isehara, Japan) and Takayuki Kawamura (Isehara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lamp includes first and second light sources, a collecting lens that collects light, a shielding member that passes collected light through a radiating slit, and a projecting lens that forms a radiation pattern with light. The collecting lens includes a first lens portion and a second lens portion that correspond to the first and second light sources, respectively, the radiating slit includes a near-side slit port...