US Patent Issued to Nissan North America on April 8 for "Accent lighting systems for cupholders in vehicles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,392, issued on April 8, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Accent lighting systems for cupholders in vehicles" was invented by Steven Young (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Nelson Phan (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accent lighting system for a vehicle that includes a light module, which may be flexible or rigid in construction, and a transmitter. The light module includes a first inductive member, and the transmitter includes a second inductive member that is configured for electromagnetic communication with the first inductive member so as to create current in the first inductive member a...