US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "Vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,065, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Motoaki Hachisuka (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control device for controlling illumination of a headlight of a vehicle. The vehicle control device determines whether a preset illumination target approach area condition is satisfied, detects an illumination target including a pedestrian in front of the vehicle by increasing a horizontal width of an illumination range of the headlight compared to a case where the illumination target approach area condition is not satisfied when the illuminat...