ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,905, issued on June 17, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle lamp" was invented by Takahiro Totsuka (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yusuke Fukuta (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lamp including: a container-shaped lamp body whose front surface is opened; and a front cover assembled to a front opening of the lamp body and defines a lamp chamber inside. On a back wall of the lamp body, a plurality of beams having a substantially arc-shaped cross section and constituting a part of the back wall extend in a truss shape from an upper edge portion to a lower edge portion of the back wall."

The pate...