US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, Sumitomo Wiring Systems on July 14 for "Lighting system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,673, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan) and Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. (Mie, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting system includes a door illumination provided on the inner surface of a side door, a rear detection sensor for detecting an object around a vehicle, and a control device for controlling the door illumination based on the detection result of...