ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,352, issued on June 10, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle posture calculation device and headlight optical-axis control apparatus" was invented by Kentarou Yamasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle posture calculation device includes an electronic control unit for a vehicle. The electronic control unit acquires a position and orientation of the vehicle from information of a global positioning system receiver. The electronic control unit extracts, as at least one feature point, a position of a landmark in an image acquired with a camera. The electronic control unit acquires at least one calculated reference...