US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Feb. 17 for "Exterior light and charge indicator" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,268, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Exterior light and charge indicator" was invented by Matthew Coburn (Milford, Mich.), Brian Gase (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Mohamad Jeffery Hammoud (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Luke James Mack (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Paul Hoste (White Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electric vehicles indicate charge levels in different ways. A lighting control module is communicatively is configured to illuminate an exterior light of an electric vehicle to indicate a charge status of a battery for the electric vehicle. The charge status is indicated based on vary...