ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,130, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Method for operating a high-resolution headlamp of a vehicle" was invented by Markus Hoener (Bergkamen, Germany), Christian Huester (Salzkotten, Germany), Martin Seipel (Bad Wuennenberg, Germany) and Ingo Steiner (Dortmund, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a high-resolution headlamp of a vehicle, the headlamp being configured to project an image into the outer region of the vehicle. At least two regions are selected in the image to be projected which have the same brightness gradients. The brightness gradients of the at l...