US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING on July 14 for "Vehicle headlamp" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,662, issued on July 14, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle headlamp" was invented by Masanori Kito (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hidetada Tanaka (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle headlamp that is mounted on a vehicle and forms a light distribution pattern including a low-beam light distribution pattern includes first irradiator that irradiates a first light distribution pattern that is a portion of the low-beam light distribution pattern, and a second irradiator that irradiates a second light distribution pattern that is a portion of the low-beam light distribution pattern, at least a porti...