ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,096, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to STANLEY ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle lamp" was invented by Hiroyuki Chikama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lamp includes a light source, and a reflector including a diffusion/reflection surface configured to diffuse and reflect light emitted from the light source toward a front surface side, the diffusion/reflection surface has a curved surface shape that forms a curve according to directionality of the light emitted from the light source in a cross section in at least one direction along an optical axis of the light emitted from the light source."

The patent was filed ...