ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,994, issued on March 18.

"Automotive glare reduction system" was invented by Ramesh Balasubramanyan (Salem, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for reducing glare experienced by a driver. The system includes a camera and a processor mounted on a vehicle and a display screen mounted on a windshield of the vehicle. The processor captures an image from the camera, detecting one or more headlights within the image using one or more Haar-Cascade classifiers and determining current measured positions of the headlights within the image. The processor is further configured for determining a location of one or more blots on the disp...