ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,971, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Iwata, Japan).
"Headlight device and leaning vehicle" was invented by Takehiro Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan), Atsushi Kamo (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takahiro Yamada (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device of a leaning vehicle for controlling bright lighting and dim lighting for a plurality of oblique areas. When the leaning vehicle is upright, the control device controls the lighting by designating one or more of the plurality of oblique areas as in a brightly lit area to which adaptive lighting control is applied, and by designating the other oblique areas...