US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 11 for "Automotive screen deployment system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,230, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Automotive screen deployment system" was invented by Shailesh N. Joshi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Frederico Marcolino Quintao Severgnini (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A screen deployment device includes a screen, a light source, and a photoactuator coupled to the screen and configured to change size or shape in response to light. When the photoactuator is illuminated by light from the light source, the screen is in a first s...