US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 2 for "Systems and methods for synchronizing the presentation of vehicle exterior lights" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,572, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for synchronizing the presentation of vehicle exterior lights" was invented by Benjamin Piya Austin (Saline, Mich.), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.) and William Patrick Garrett (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to synchronizing the presentation of vehicle exterior lights to reduce the sensory overload of a pedestrian. In one embodiment, a method includes assessing a sensory environ...