US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING on June 17 for "Vehicle light, illumination device for active sensor, and gating camera" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,898, issued on June 17, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle light, illumination device for active sensor, and gating camera" was invented by Shota Yonemaru (Shizuoka, Japan), Kazuya Motohashi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tomoaki Harada (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lamp includes a clearance lamp and an illumination unit for an active sensor. The illumination unit includes a near-infrared light source and a photoconductor. The photoconductor receives emitted light from the near-infrared light source and emits illumination light having a predetermined light distribution from an emission s...