ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,409, issued on June 9, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC MOBILITY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Light distribution control device, light distribution control system, and light distribution control method" was invented by Mitsuo Shimotani (Tokyo), Satoru Inoue (Tokyo), Yoshitaka Onishi (Tokyo) and Hiroki Nakamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light distribution control device includes processing circuitry configured to receive environment information indicating an environment in which a host vehicle is placed; receive an instruction from a driver of the host vehicle to switch an irradiation lamp of the host vehicle; perform estimation of...