ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,127, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Vehicular lamp" was invented by Tatsuma Kitazawa (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vehicular lamp capable of notifying, when a subject vehicle approaches a corner with a blind spot, a pedestrian or other vehicles in the blind spot at the corner of the subject vehicle approaching the corner. In a vehicular lamp which includes an adaptive lamp unit (4L, 4R), an object detection signal acquirer (5, 14) that acquires an object detection signal around a vehicle, and an adaptive controller (6L, 6R) that adjusts an irradiatio...