ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,943, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya-City, Japan).

"Vehicle headlight control apparatus, vehicle headlight control method, and vehicle headlight control program" was invented by Yukimi Murase (Okazaki, Japan), Takuya Nomura (Chita-gun, Japan) and Tetsuya Ikuta (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle headlight control apparatus controls a headlamp capable of adjusting the amount of light for each of a plurality of light distribution areas. The vehicle headlight control apparatus includes: a high-luminance target detection unit that detects a high-luminance...