ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,382, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle headlight control system" was invented by Toshiaki Imai (Aichi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle headlight control system, includes: an operation section configured to adopt a first position and a second position by being rotated with respect to a lever body; a biasing section that returns the operation section to the first position; and a processor coupled to a memory, the processor configured to enable control of vehicle sidelights and low-beam headlights; a first display portion that indicates a relative position of the operation...