US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Aug. 26 for "Illumination control device, biometric information acquiring device, and illumination control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,732, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Illumination control device, biometric information acquiring device, and illumination control method" was invented by Shuhei Ota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination control device includes: an accident detection unit to detect an accident of a vehicle using a signal output from a sensor mounted on the vehicle; a lamp body control unit to command a lamp body that illuminates a vehicle interior using visible light to turn on when an accident is detected by the accident detection unit; and a lamp color changing unit to change a lamp color of th...