US Patent Issued to Panasonic Avionics on Jan. 20 for "Programmable lighting methods and systems for a removable peripheral bar" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,598, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Panasonic Avionics Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Programmable lighting methods and systems for a removable peripheral bar" was invented by David Diaz (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Steven Christopher Vazquez (Chino, Calif.), Yoshimi Yamamoto (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Sebastian Petry (Seattle), Mehdi Izadyar (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.), Nicholas Ma (San Marcos, Calif.) and Omar Lopez Cisneros (Norco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Innovative peripheral bar assembly for a transportation vehicle is provided. One method includes transmitting, by a processor of a seat device of an aircraft...