ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,652, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control system for light transmission switch" was invented by Shohei Hasegawa (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each of a plurality of light transmission switches includes a translucent region that allows light from a light source to pass through a surface of an instrument panel into a vehicle cabin, and an opaque region that blocks passage of the light into the vehicle cabin. It is determined, for each of the light transmission switches, whether a current situation is a situation in which an occupant makes a turn-on request to turn on the lig...