US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING on June 2 for "Vehicle lamp and method of controlling vehicle lamp configured to switch between a normal light distribution and road surface drawing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,572, issued on June 2, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle lamp and method of controlling vehicle lamp configured to switch between a normal light distribution and road surface drawing" was invented by Mariko Miwa (Shizuoka, Japan), Saki Nakamura (Shizuoka, Japan) and Qiwei Ye (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lamp includes an optical unit including a spatial light modulator that provides a normal light distribution pattern and a road surface drawing, and an actuator that drives the optical unit so as to switch an illumination direction of the optical unit between a first direction fo...