ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,888, issued on April 15, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"System and methods to program active vehicle paint surfaces" was invented by Jean-Yves Couleaud (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Charles Dasher (Lawrenceville, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are described for changing the exterior color of a vehicle with an exterior surface comprising a plurality of electronically programmable color cells. The systems and methods describe receiving a request to begin color programming mode on the vehicle and in response to determining that a state of the vehicle permits the color programming mode, activat...