ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,381, issued on May 20, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Object tracking adaptive driving beam" was invented by Yifu Xiao (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Luis Guillermo Sagastume Pelaez (Fountain Valley, Calif.), Vijay Jayaraman (Irvine, Calif.), Simon Baker (Hampshire, Great Britain) and Shammika Ashan Wickramasinghe (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments may provide a control system for a vehicle, which may include and memory coupled to the processors. The memory may include instructions executable by the processor. The processors may be operable when executing the instructio...