US Patent Issued to Magna Exteriors on Oct. 28 for "Ambient lighting system with haptic feedback for automobiles" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,216, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Magna Exteriors Inc. (Aurora, Canada).

"Ambient lighting system with haptic feedback for automobiles" was invented by Luca Gioanola (Aurora, Canada), Federico Ramonda (Aurora, Canada) and Frank Hallitschke (Aurora, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ambient lighting system for automobiles serves to illuminate at least a portion of a passenger compartment and includes a plurality of light guide modules, interposed between the light sources and said contact surface, adapted to guide light rays emitted by light sources and being designed to isolate the light rays to realize sector, blocks or...