US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 24 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,117, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Eisuke Ando (Nagoya, Japan) and Takehito Fujii (Anjyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a headlight driver input indicates an AUTO mode, a VCIB accepts a headlight mode request from an ADK. The VCIB identifies a current headlight driver input. The VCIB reads first correspondence information and checks the identified headlight driver input and the accepted headlight mode request against the first correspondence information to determine an illumination status of a headlight."

The patent was filed on Oct. 16, 2023, under Appl...