Future Ford Vehicles Could Get Advanced Interior Lighting

Ford Motor Company has filed a patent for an advanced interior lighting system that may be used in future Ford vehicles, Ford Authority has learned.

The patent was filed on March 19^th, 2024, published on October 29^th, 2024, and assigned serial number 12128820.

The Ford Authority Take

In the past, Ford has explored ideas for using different colors of ambient lighting to “trick” occupants into feeling warmer or colder as a way to boost efficiency in EVs, as well as a multifunction car visor system that would also enable users to adjust brightness settings or use an ambient light sensor to automatically adjust such things. Now, this newly published patent aims to expand upon those ideas with a new concept for advanced interior lighting that may be used in future Ford vehicles, too.

The concept here revolves around giving users all sorts of ways to control ambient lighting inside of vehicles, which goes far beyond what’s currently possible. If this patent comes to fruition, users would be able to control all sorts of interior lighting settings – including ambient lighting – changing the color, brightness, and intensity in a variety of ways, even via predefined zones within a vehicle.

Aside from controlling these features using controls on the vehicle’s infotainment screen, Ford also proposes a special setting in a smartphone application that could store one’s preferred settings and also modify them by zone or as a whole. In fact, users could rely on a full color wheel to select their preferred hue, then a slider button to control the brightness and intensity. These types of settings are already used in things like home lighting and smart bulbs, which give users a tremendous amount of control that simply isn’t present in today’s vehicles. However, if this patent does indeed come to fruition, that may not be the case much longer.