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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2016
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Stuart C. Salter, White Lake, MI (US);
Pietro Buttolo, Dearborn Heights, MI (US);
Cornel Lewis Gardner, Romulus, MI (US);
James J. Surman, Clinton Township, MI (US);
James Stewart Rankin, II, Novi, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A lighting system is provided herein. The lighting system includes a number of lights and a portable electronic device carried by a vehicle occupant. A controller is in communication with a sensing system and configured to detect a cabin location of the electronic device, assign a seating area to the electronic device, and operate only the lights associated with the seating area based on information indicative of an impending departure of the vehicle occupant from the vehicle.