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US 12,545,177 B2Granted
Multifunction vehicle lamp
AssigneeGrote Industries, Inc.
InventorsSankalp Pampattiwar, Yogesh Kubal, Cesar Perez-Bolivar
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Abstract
A lamp for a vehicle or other object that includes multiple functions. In one aspect, the lamp includes a first circuit for emitting a first color light (such as red light), and at least a second circuit for emitting a second color of light (such as amber light). In another aspect, the lamp optionally includes a microcontroller that may be programmed to control the activation of the different colored lamp circuits based on lamp location information, and based on an operating mode.
Claims12
A method, comprising:
- sending a command to a lamp mounted to a trailer, the lamp including:
- one or more red lamps operable to produce red light;
- a control circuit responsive to the commands and electrically connected to the red lamps, wherein the control circuit includes control logic operable to determine when to activate the red lamps, and a memory operable to store a location of the lamp on the trailer;
- activating the red lamps to generate red light when the command received matches the location of the lamp according to control logic in the control circuit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.