ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,227, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan) and SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie-Ken, Japan).

"On-board air conditioning system" was invented by Yuuki Arai (Toyota, Japan), Masaaki Aoki (Nagoya, Japan), Hisao Takahashi (Toyota, Japan), Yasunori Wakamatsu (Nagakute, Japan), Tadashi Naruse (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Akihiro Kusada (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-board air conditioning system includes at least one illumination light emitter disposed on at least one of a driver seat door, a front passenger seat door, and a center cluster, and an illumination light controller configur...