US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on June 3 for "Visible light communications technology for inter-vehicular use" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,184, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Visible light communications technology for inter-vehicular use" was invented by Russell Andres (Riverview, Mich.), Michael William Putty (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.) and Sridhar Lakshmanan (Belleville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system comprising a light source associated with a first item of interest; a visible light communications system operably coupled to the light source of the first item of interest, the visible light communications system configured to process information as an encoded signal and outp...