US Patent Issued to FCA US on April 14 for "Vehicle interior lighting assembly with varied transparency" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,296, issued on April 14, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicle interior lighting assembly with varied transparency" was invented by Fernando Marco Garza Villarreal (Windsor, Canada) and Matthew R Kappel (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interior lighting assembly for a vehicle includes a base having an end wall and an open side opposite to the end wall, a light emitter between the end wall and the open side; and a cover attached to the base over the open side and defining with the base an interior in which the emitter is received, the cover has a first portion formed of a first material and ...