ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,021, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to STANLEY ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicular lamp fitting" was invented by Yuri Mitomo (Tokyo), Yuichiro Nishimura (Tokyo), Takahiko Tokiwa (Tokyo), Keiichi Hirata (Tokyo), Minoru Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Satoshi Ito (Tokyo), Keishi Shiomi (Tokyo), Hideaki Aizawa (Tokyo), Shunichi Nakano (Tokyo) and Takato Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lighting fixture comprising a housing, an outer lens attached to the housing and forming a first space between the outer lens and the housing, and a lighting-fixture unit arranged in the first space, wherein ...