ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,125, issued on March 25, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Display device and means of transportation" was invented by Manrico Joseph (Ober-Ramstadt, Germany) and Ralph Neupert (Kleinwallstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device and a motor vehicle having such a display device is disclosed. The display device has a display panel and a backlight for the display panel. The backlight has a reflector having a plurality of reflectively embodied cavities, and a plurality of light sources in each case arranged in the cavities. Moreover, the backlight has support elements, wh...