US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING on Sept. 30 for "Light distribution control device, vehicle light system, and light distribution control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,911, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Light distribution control device, vehicle light system, and light distribution control method" was invented by Hirohiko Oshio (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuichi Watano (Shizuoka, Japan), Takashi Terayama (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hikaru Nagai (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light distribution control device, if a first upper limit number N1less than=the number of near-distance targets T1, controls a lamp to irradiate the near-distance targets with light having illuminance according to attributes of the near-distance targets; if a remaining number M...