US Patent Issued on Aug. 26 for "Systems and methods for actuating vehicle lights based on external light show" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,706, issued on Aug. 26.

"Systems and methods for actuating vehicle lights based on external light show" was invented by Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Anthony Maraldo (Southgate, Mich.), Andrew Brown (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a detection unit and a processor is disclosed. The detection unit may be configured to capture inputs associated with an external light being illuminated in proximity to the vehicle. The processor may be configured to obtain the inputs from the detec...