ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,638, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Automated eye adaptation system and method" was invented by Jan Bilek (Brno, Czech Republic) and John G. Suddreth (Phoenix).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for adjusting brightness level within a vehicle includes supplying, to a processing system, destination brightness data, exterior brightness data, and interior brightness data. At least the destination data, the exterior brightness data, and the interior brightness data are processed in the processing system to: compute an estimated time of arrival (ETA) for the vehicle to ar...