ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,219, issued on April 7, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).
"Optical member" was invented by Hiroshi Ando (Nisshin, Japan) and Kazuyuki Ishihara (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical member includes a light guide body that includes an incident surface on which a light from a blind area is incident, multiple reflecting surfaces configured to reflect the light from the incident surface, a smooth surface configured to reflect the light reflected by the reflecting surfaces, and multiple prisms protruding from the reflecti...