US Patent Issued to ELECTRIC MIRROR on March 18 for "Systems and methods for changing a color temperature and brightness of a light" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,473, issued on March 18, was assigned to ELECTRIC MIRROR LLC (Everett, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for changing a color temperature and brightness of a light" was invented by James V Mischel Jr. (Seattle), James Vernon Mischel Sr. (Arlington, Wash.), Richard Allen Lindsay (Mukilteo, Wash.), Michael Martin Uhl (Seattle) and Johann Friedrich Adam (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses control light emitted from a mirror platform through an interaction with a user. A first signal is received from a capacitive sensor during the interaction. The capacitive sensor is incorporated on the back side of the mirror pl...