ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,215, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Device and method for synchronizing a headlamp of a motor vehicle using a camera" was invented by Claas Tebrugge (Lippstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is provided including a headlamp including imaging elements for the targeted generation of pixels of a light distribution, and which is set up so that individual imaging elements are actuated separately via pulse width modulation to specify the luminous flux generated by the imaging element through the ratio of the on-phases and the off-phases of the pulse width modulation. A camera...