ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,104, issued on March 25, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Automotive lamp" was invented by Tomoyuki Ichikawa (Shizuoka, Japan) and Shoji Fujita (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive lamp includes a first lamp unit, a second lamp unit, and a third lamp unit. The first lamp unit illuminates a first region having its longitudinal direction in the horizontal direction and having its upper edge defining a horizontal cutoff line in the low-beam mode and the high-beam mode. The second lamp unit illuminates a second region having its longitudinal direction in an oblique direction inclined with r...