US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING on June 9 for "Adaptive vehicle headlamp based on object position" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,411, issued on June 9, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Adaptive vehicle headlamp based on object position" was invented by Masanori Kito (Shizuoka, Japan), Hiroki Kawai (Shizuoka, Japan) and Akinori Matsumoto (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle headlamp mounted on a vehicle is capable of forming at least a first light distribution pattern projected onto an area below a cutoff line and a second light distribution pattern projected along the cutoff line to overlap with the cutoff line. At least a partial projection area of the second light distribution pattern is adjusted in luminous intensit...