US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on March 4 for "Dynamic adjustment of flexible mirror using photochromatic material" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,049, issued on March 4, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Dynamic adjustment of flexible mirror using photochromatic material" was invented by Ercan M Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Shailesh N Joshi (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light apparatus includes an optical member, composed of an elastically deformable material, having a reflective surface to reflect light. The optical member moveable between a first state in which the reflective surface has a first structural shape, and a plurality of second states in which the reflective surface has a second structu...