ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,779, issued on April 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle, control method for vehicle, and storage medium" was invented by Yoshiyuki Kuroba (Tokyo), Kazuki Akami (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Maeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a lamp body that irradiates surroundings of the vehicle, comprising a control unit configured to control an irradiation range of the lamp body according to a speed of the vehicle, wherein the control unit controls the irradiation range according to the speed to be different when the speed increases and when the speed decreases."

The patent was filed on Feb. 23, 2024, und...