ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,551, issued on June 17, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating at least one vehicle headlight and vehicle" was invented by Adriano Ruggiero (Pforzheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a vehicle headlight involves operating the vehicle headlight with an additional light switched on. If it is necessary to dim at least one region of the light field or to switch the vehicle headlight into the dim ground lighting mode, the additional light is deactivated. The sensor signal of the computing unit is checked to determine whether it is still required to at least partial...