US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on March 31 for "Lighting features for a lift gate of a vehicle" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,687, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Lighting features for a lift gate of a vehicle" was invented by Simon Baker (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Siobhan Marie Casey (Newport Beach, Calif.), Timothy Beaven (Bicester, Great Britain), Micheal Richard Castiglione (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Shammika Ashan Wickramasinghe (Banbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rear lighting systems of a vehicle may include lights sources that function as taillights, brake lights, turn lights, fog lights. Some lights sources may surround, or at least partially surround, other lights sources. Further, s...