ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,106, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Autosystems a division of Magna Exteriors Inc. (Aurora, Canada).

"Vehicle headlight assembly and system with hybrid matrix low beam" was invented by Gaurav Bhutani (Aurora, Canada), Seok-Jun Yang (Aurora, Canada) and Rafat M. Mohammad (Aurora, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headlight assembly for a vehicle includes a foreground light source configured to project light over a first field of view greater than 20-degrees wide, and a spot beam light source that includes a plurality of pixel light sources configured to project light over a second field of view smaller than the first field o...