ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,391, issued on April 8, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle light fitting, radar module, radar, and vehicle" was invented by Yoshihiro Katsurada (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuta Maruyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Osamu Kuboyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Akihito Horikawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Kosei Kikuchi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yuichi Watano (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A left vehicle lamp (2L) includes a lamp housing (14), a lamp cover (12) that covers an opening of the lamp housing (14), an illumination unit (3, 4) that is disposed inside a lamp chamber (S) formed by the lamp housing (14) and the lamp power bar (...