ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,066, issued on March 18, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Lamp system and automotive lamp" was invented by Kiyotaka Mochizuki (Shizuoka, Japan), Naoki Tatara (Shizuoka, Japan) and Norihiko Kobayashi (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lamp system includes a variable light distribution lamp. The variable light distribution lamp 110 irradiates a beam having a variable light intensity distribution to a road surface. A light distribution controller controls the variable light distribution lamp. In response to the start of a predetermined event, the light distribution controller draws a pattern that co...