ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,046, issued on May 12, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Color-changing automotive cabin interiors utilizing photoplethysmography technology" was invented by Sathishkumar Murugesan (Salem District, India) and Shweta Kulkarni (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a plurality of interior panels that include an outer decorative layer formed of a material that includes a thermochromic coloring agent. A physiologic condition monitoring device monitors various physiologic conditions of a driver of the vehicle, and based on the physiologic conditions of the driver, a temperature of the thermochromic...