US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on June 17 for "Systems and methods for controlling light sources" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,914, issued on June 17, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for controlling light sources" was invented by Matthew Coburn (Milford, Mich.) and Robert Skapof (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lighting control systems and methods for providing dynamic control of multiple light sources with a single input are disclosed herein. When a long touch is detected at a user interface element, a first light source is turned on. If the long touch persists for a predefined time period, a second light source (e.g., an adjacent light source) is also turned on. The luminosity of the first light sou...