US Patent Issued to Lumileds on July 15 for "Vehicle side and rear exterior illumination and projection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,444, issued on July 15, was assigned to Lumileds LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Vehicle side and rear exterior illumination and projection" was invented by Michael Camras (San Jose, Calif.) and Jyoti Kiron Bhardwaj (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed in which one or more light sources, a detector, a processor and a controller are configured such that light from the one or more light sources can provide illumination or projections that can reduce accidents while the vehicle is in motion and when parked and may also provide information and illumination to the driver and vehicle occupa...