US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on March 3 for "Information notification system, control device, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,505, issued on March 3, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Information notification system, control device, and control method" was invented by Tsuyoshi Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan), Miori Kondo (Osaka, Japan) and Atsushi Masuda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information notification system includes: an actuator that vibrates a body of a steering wheel for operating a movable body and is configured to output sound through vibration; a light emitter provided to the steering wheel and configured to emit light; and a control device that is electrically connected to the actuator and the li...