ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,054, issued on April 29, was assigned to Koito Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle lamp apparatus" was invented by Shigeyuki Watanabe (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hirohiko Oshio (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lamp apparatus has an adaptive driving beam lamp unit, and a controller. The adaptive driving beam lamp unit contains a plurality of individually controllable pixels, and is structured to emit a lamp beam with a light distribution that corresponds to states of the pixels. The controller is structured to control the light distribution of the adaptive driving beam lamp unit. The vehicle lamp apparatus can f...