US Patent Issued to 4D Intellectual Properties on Sept. 16 for "Vehicle headlamp lighting control module for adas and autonomous vehicles" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,719, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to 4D Intellectual Properties LLC (Chaska, Minn.).

"Vehicle headlamp lighting control module for adas and autonomous vehicles" was invented by James E. Retterath (Excelsior, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle headlamps are typically used to illuminate scenes for better vision. The same headlamps can be used as part of an active camera at discrete times during the camera's imaging periods. In embodiments, a lighting control module utilizes an electronic control module to control on/off states of the headlamps during a set of non-imaging periods of the camera system and a camera control ...