ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,053, issued on April 29, was assigned to International Research Institute (iRI) (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for replicating vehicular illumination" was invented by Robert Ernest Troxler (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for replicating vehicular illumination are disclosed. According to an aspect, a system includes a detector configured to sense light emitted by a host light of a host vehicle for detecting a lighting state of the host light. The system also includes a communications system configured to communicate the detected lighting state between the host light and the remote light. Further...