US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on June 24 for "Adaptively steered vehicle headlamps using driver gaze direction and head direction" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,749, issued on June 24, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Adaptively steered vehicle headlamps using driver gaze direction and head direction" was invented by Ryan J. Gorski (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.), John R. Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.) and Jian Wan (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle for travelling on a roadway with a driver has a driver monitor, a head lamp system, and a controller. The driver monitor senses a driver gaze angle relative to a vehicle heading along the roadway and senses a driver head angle relative to the vehicle heading. The a headlamp system has a steerable head...