ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,775, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle headlamp having a lamp unit with a matrix of light emitting units emitting a plurality of irradiation spots and a boundary determination unit and control unit controlling the boundary illuminance" was invented by Mitsuharu Mano (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle headlamp (1) includes: a lamp unit (10); a boundary determination unit (50); and a control unit (CO), in which the control unit (CO) controls the lamp unit (10) such that an illuminance of light irradiating respective irradiation spots (20) in an irradiation spot row...