ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,419, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle headlight having an imaging generation unit and a matrix light source unit for producing overlapping images in a light distribution" was invented by Mitsuharu Mano (Shizuoka, Japan), Naoki Kawabata (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomoki Wakasugi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Shuji Matsuura (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle headlight includes: an image generation unit; a light source unit configured to emit light based on an image generated by the image generation unit; and a memory configured to store a reference image for forming a reference ligh...