US Patent Issued to Toshiba Lighting & Technology on March 18 for "Vehicle lighting device and vehicle lamp" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,233, issued on March 18, was assigned to Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Vehicle lighting device and vehicle lamp" was invented by Hiraku Mori (Ehime, Japan) and Daisuke Kosugi (Ehime, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lighting device and a vehicle lamp are provided. The vehicle lighting includes a socket; a substrate provided on one end portion side of the socket; light emitting elements provided on the substrate; and a control element provided on the substrate and electrically connected to the light emitting elements. The control element turns on some of the light emitting elements when the inp...