US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 28 for "Vehicle interior lighting system using liquid lens" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,260, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle interior lighting system using liquid lens" was invented by Linsheng Chen (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lighting system comprising a light source for generating light illumination, a liquid lens optically aligned with the light source to receive the light illumination and generate an output beam, and a controller configured to control electric power supplied to the liquid lens. The controller applies a first voltage to the liquid lens to generate a first output beam having a first beam size and generates a second v...