ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,030, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle light fixture system, light distribution control device, and light distribution control method" was invented by Hiroki Yamamoto (Shizuoka, Japan) and Motohiro Komatsu (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle light fixture system includes: a low-beam unit adapted to form a low-beam light distribution pattern having a cutoff line and to independently adjust illuminance in a plurality of subareas in the low-beam light distribution pattern arranged below and along the cutoff line; and a light distribution control device that controls t...