ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,383, issued on March 24, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI INC. (Nagano, Japan).

"Vehicle cabin illumination device" was invented by Satoshi Kawamoto (Hiroshima City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application improves a design while controlling cost increase. In a vehicle cabin illuminating device, a first and second cabin LEDs are housed in a case. A panel of the case is provided with a cabin illuminator, and a light irradiated from the first and the second cabin LEDs passes through the cabin illuminator to illuminate inside a vehicle cabin. The panel is provided with a decorative illuminator having a decorative translucen...