ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,693, issued on March 31, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Shinagawa-Ku, Japan).

"Vehicular lamp, control device and control method for vehicular lamp, vehicular lamp system, and configurating device and configurating method for vehicular lamp" was invented by Yuichi Nakazawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuichi Watano (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuta Maruyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Takahiro Totsuka (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yasushi Ohtsuka (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular lamp apparatus includes: a lamp unit; a controller that controls the lamp unit based on vehicle information received from a vehicle; and an acceleratio...