ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,342, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Display apparatus for a motor vehicle" was invented by Joris Mertens (Ingolstadt, Germany), Jacques Helot (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Immo Redeker (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A one-piece display has a main display area at least partly viewable from one point of observation, and a secondary display area arranged so as to not be viewable from that point of observation. The main display area and the secondary display area are arranged relative to one another in such a way that the secondary display area is reflected in the main display area to ...