ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,179, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle dimmer control system" was invented by Moyu Tanaka (Shizuoka, Japan) and Terumitsu Sugimoto (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle dimmer control system includes a controller that adjusts the visible light transmissivity of dimming glass in each of multiple windows included in a vehicle. The controller uses dimming determination information, which is at least one of own vehicle state information indicating a state of the vehicle and own vehicle position information indicating a vehicle position, to determine whether to bring the windows into a p...