US Patent Issued to NICHIA on April 7 for "Light emitting device and traffic system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,343, issued on April 7, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light emitting device and traffic system" was invented by Ichimaru Morita (Komatsushima, Japan), Naoya Masuda (Tokushima, Japan) and Moriyasu Fukuhara (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting device for emitting a given irradiation light pattern is provided. The light emitting device includes a plurality of light emitting elements configured to be individually turned on. The light emitting device is configured to emit at least one irradiation light pattern onto a road surface in accordance with a detected situation of a traffic object."

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