ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,019, issued on Jan. 27.
"Force touch and haptics based digital shade control" was invented by Pietro Buttolo (Dearborn Heights, Mich.), Neha Singhal (Northville, Mich.), Biaohe Guo (Northville, Mich.), Mark Larry (Macomb, Mich.) and Kenneth Michael Mayer (Ypsilanti, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for digital shading control in a vehicle. The digital shading control may be integrated into glass of a vehicle, pillars, and more. In at least one implementation, the digital shading control is integrated directly into glass of a vehicle and comprises a transparency-changing material interface layer disposed of ove...