ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,234, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Scania CV AB (Sodertalje, Sweden).

"Method, control arrangement, and control device for controlling a rear lamp in a vehicle" was invented by Henrik Persson (Upplands Vasby, Sweden) and Pierre Recordon (Villeurbanne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method, a control arrangement, and a control device for controlling a rear lamp in a vehicle. The rear lamp is operated in an emergency signal mode when it is determined that an emergency signal event has occurred and based on one or more first initiation pulses associated with the emergency signal event transmitted t...