ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,074, issued on June 23.

"Systems and methods to reduce glare in a vehicle interior portion" was invented by Clara Bennie (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.) and Brian Bennie (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a sensor unit and a processor is disclosed. The sensor unit may be configured to capture inputs associated with vehicle interior and exterior portions. The processor may be configured to determine a presence of a glare on a user face associated with a user or an object located in a vehicle interior portion based on the inputs captured by the sensor unit. The ...