US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operation on Oct. 27 for "Task lighting using liquid crystals with an adjustable and automated beam pattern" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,801, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operation LLC (Detroit).

"Task lighting using liquid crystals with an adjustable and automated beam pattern" was invented by Bradley Allen Newcomb (Troy, Mich.) and Jonglee Park (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes determining, based on sensor data captured by a passenger monitoring system, a region of an interior compartment of the vehicle to be illuminated. The method further includes determining an illumination beam pattern for light emitted by the adjustable task-lighting module that at least partially illuminates the region...