ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,816, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for operating a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle" was invented by Valentin Schmidt (Neuburg a.d. Donau, Germany), Tilman Armbruster (Ingolstadt, Germany), Johannes Reim (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Marcel Debelec (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a motor vehicle, wherein the motor vehicle has a lighting device comprising at least two headlight devices, wherein the headlight devices is arranged horizontally offset on a front side of the motor vehicle and each having one or more dimmable lamps, wherein a spatial region e...