ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,194, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle lamp" was invented by Shoji Fujita (Shizuoka, Japan) and Akinori Matsumoto (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lamp including a projection lens, which is configured so that the brightness of a light distribution pattern can be sufficiently ensured while achieving a lamp design in which the projection lens looks narrow in a lamp front view. The projection lens includes an emission surface having a vertically-long outer shape in the lamp front view. The light source unit is configured to cause light emitted from a light emitting...