ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,638, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYO DENSO K.K. (Tokyo) and Honda Access Corp. (Niiza, Japan).
"Lighting apparatus" was invented by Daiki Takahara (Tsurugashima, Japan), Yasuhiro Tamura (Niiza, Japan), Ryoichi Enoki (Niiza, Japan), Yuta Nakase (Niiza, Japan) and Zhuqi Hu (Niiza, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This lighting apparatus includes a linear light guide body that has a first side end into which light from a light source is introduced and a second side end positioned opposite to the first side end, and emits light in a linear shape by propagating the light introduced into the first side end toward the second sid...