ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,421, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Breville Pty Ltd. (Alexandria, Australia).

"Display assembly with a dot matrix and pictographic elements" was invented by Byron Ashley Marsh-Croft (Alexandria, Australia), Jonathan Woodcock (Alexandria, Australia), Caroline Valentina Vasta (Alexandria, Australia), Tibor Hegedis (Alexandria, Australia) and Richard Hoare (Alexandria, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display assembly (201) for a kitchen device (100), the display assembly (201) including: a liquid crystal display panel (214) having a plurality of liquid crystal elements (300) forming a dot matrix (302); a memory device (2...