US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 15 for "Vehicle interior lighting assembly with flexible LED sheet" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,955, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd (Tokyo).

"Vehicle interior lighting assembly with flexible LED sheet" was invented by Tomoya Hagihara (Novi, Mich.) and Antonio Emilio Sanchez Aguilar (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle interior lighting assembly includes a housing configured to contain lighting components, a lens through which light may be projected from the housing, and a light source including a flexible sheet including one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs). The flexible sheet includes a first, larger portion disposed at a first orientation at an oblique angle with respect to...