ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,586, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD (Yokkaichi Mie, Japan).
"Vehicle" was invented by Yasunori Wakamatsu (Nagakute, Japan), Masatoshi Ishino (Nagakute, Japan), Yuuki Arai (Toyota, Japan), Takafumi Eguchi (Aichi-ken, Japan) and Akihiro Kusada (Yokkaichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle is a vehicle that is equipped with an illumination device in a vehicle cabin and that is capable of traveling in an EV mode, the vehicle being configured to change a manner of luminescence of the illumination device when the vehicle enters a low emission zone (LEZ) wher...