US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Sept. 8 for "Vehicle lamp" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,824, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Vehicle lamp" was invented by Yuji Sato (Anan, Japan), Takuya Noichi (Tokushima, Japan) and Masafumi Sakamoto (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lamp includes a light guide plate including a plurality of light-exiting portions and a low-luminance portion, which is located between adjacent light-exiting portions and outputs light having luminance lower than luminance of light exiting from the light-exiting portion; a plurality of light sources each emit light having a light emission peak wavelength in a range from 420 nm to 550 nm to enter the ligh...