ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,232, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle lamp" was invented by Mykyta Kolchiba (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lamp includes a light source, and a lens. The lens includes a central region centered on an optical axis of the lamp and a peripheral region located around the central region. A rear surface of the peripheral region is formed with plural total reflection prism elements which reflects light emitted from the light source toward the front of the vehicle lamp in a state of being aligned in a concentric circular form centered on the optical axis. The rear sur...