US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING on Feb. 4 for "Vehicle headlight and vehicle headlight system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,716, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle headlight and vehicle headlight system" was invented by Yuta Maruyama (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit (CO) in a vehicle headlight (1) controls a light emitting unit (10) such that, when a signal indicating another vehicle (80, 90) is input, a region including a first region (211, 311) in a light distribution pattern (200, 300) becomes a light reduction region (210, 310) in which a total light flux amount of light from the light emitting unit (10) decreases as compared with that before the signal indicating the other veh...