US Patent Issued to Toshiba Lighting & Technology on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle lighting device and vehicle lamp" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,731, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Vehicle lighting device and vehicle lamp" was invented by Misaki Ueno (Ehime-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lighting device according to an embodiment includes: a socket; a light emitting module provided on one end side of the socket and including at least one light emitting element; and an optical element provided on the one end side of the socket and facing the light emitting element. The optical element has at least one incident surface having a convex curved surface protruding toward the light emitting element side...