US Patent Issued to Stanley Electric on Oct. 27 for "Control apparatus for headlamp, control method for headlamp, and headlamp system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,944, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Stanley Electric Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus for headlamp, control method for headlamp, and headlamp system" was invented by Yoshio Hamanaka (Tokyo), Ryotaro Owada (Tokyo), Takeshi Kambara (Tokyo) and Ken Nishioka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for a headlamp in which irradiation lights of a left-side variable light distribution unit and a right-side variable light distribution unit are overlapped to form a combined irradiation light in front of a vehicle, where the control apparatus performs: to set a first and a second light dimming ranges in the irradiatio...