ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,088, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan) and Murakami Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Indicator and outer mirror" was invented by Tasuku Kawai (Miyoshi, Japan), Hiroshi Kawai (Nissin, Japan), Manabu Fukuhara (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hiroya Miwa (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indicator provided on an outer mirror of a vehicle includes: a light transmission portion formed in a mirror surface portion of a mirror member of the outer mirror; and a light emission portion disposed on a side opposite to an exposure surface side being exposed to the outside of the mirror member in such a ...