US Patent Issued to FCA US on July 22 for "Vehicle ambient light system with overlapped light assemblies" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,285, issued on July 22, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicle ambient light system with overlapped light assemblies" was invented by Matthew R Kappel (Auburn Hills, Mich.) and Fernando M Garza Villarreal (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for a vehicle includes first and second interior trim components with a gap or seam between them, and first and second lighting assemblies. The first lighting assembly includes a first light source and a first light receptacle into which light is emitted from the first light source and from which light is emitted onto the first interior trim component. T...