ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,101, issued on March 25, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Vehicular lamp" was invented by Takahiro Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan), Takaya Shimizu (Shizuoka, Japan) and Toshiyuki Fujimura (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular lamp includes a light source, a reflector, and a projection lens. The vehicular lamp is configured to radiate, toward front of the lamp via the projection lens, light from the light source, the light being reflected by the reflector. A reflective surface of the reflector includes a reflective region configured to illuminate a short-distance road surface within 5 m in front o...