US Patent Issued to Panasonic Avionics on Dec. 2 for "Methods and systems for managing lighting on a transportation vehicle" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,361, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Panasonic Avionics Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for managing lighting on a transportation vehicle" was invented by Henry Zoon-Hu Tzeng (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for a transportation vehicle. One method includes computing an average of light sensor data of a first group of seat devices; comparing the computed average with a previous average of the first group and at least a second group; determining that the computed average of the light sensor data of the first group is different from the previous average by a threshold value; ...