ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,875, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Cobalt Industries Inc. (San Francisco).

"Real-time contextual vehicle lighting systems and methods" was invented by Rana June Sobhany (Lakewood Ranch, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes an internal lighting system with a plurality of lighting devices, which is capable of outputting different lighting configurations. Each lighting configuration is defined by a brightness of emitted light, a color of emitted light, a number and identity of the plurality of lighting devices that are turned on, and/or a time-based sequence of changes to the brightness or color of one or more o...