ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,981, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Lamp system" was invented by Shigeyuki Watanabe (Shizuoka, Japan), Takao Muramatsu (Shizuoka, Japan), Yasushi Noyori (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takashi Terayama (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-definition lamp unit includes a plurality of individually controllable pixels, and emits lamp light having a light distribution corresponding to states of the plurality of pixels. A leveling actuator can control a mechanical position of the high-definition lamp unit. A controller controls the leveling actuator and the high-definition lamp unit accor...