ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,083, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Display apparatus and vehicle" was invented by Manrico Joseph (Ober-Ramstadt, Germany) and Martin Jekel (Bad Nauheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a display panel and a backlight for the display panel. The backlight has a reflector with a plurality of regularly shaped, reflectively embodied cavities which are arranged in a grid. The reflector also has irregularly shaped, reflectively embodied cavities in at least one peripheral region. In addition, the backlight has a plurality of light sources...