ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,326, issued on July 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle lighting device, vehicle lighting control method, and storage medium" was invented by Yuji Tsuchiya (Wako, Japan), Tsuyoshi Takamoto (Wako, Japan), Kazuyuki Kawamura (Wako, Japan), Akihiro Kageyu (Wako, Japan) and Kei Oshida (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lighting device includes a first exterior light that is provided on an exterior portion of a vehicle, a second exterior light that is provided on the exterior portion of the vehicle, a recognition unit configured to recognize an object present on a travel route of the vehicle, a det...