US Patent Issued to Toshiba Lighting &Technology on June 17 for "Vehicle lighting device and vehicle lamp" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,902, issued on June 17, was assigned to Toshiba Lighting &Technology Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Vehicle lighting device and vehicle lamp" was invented by Tomohiro Matsuo (Ehime-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a vehicle lighting device and a vehicle lamp. The vehicle lighting device includes: a socket; five light-emitting elements, provided on one end side of the socket; and a brightness controller, provided on a light-emitting side of the light-emitting elements and having a plurality of light-shielding parts and a light-transmitting part. One of the light-emitting elements is provided at a position o...