ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,412, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).
"Display apparatus and means of transportation" was invented by Manrico Joseph (Ober-Ramstadt, Germany), Martin Jekel (Bad Nauheim, Germany) and Sait Kalender (Darmstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus and a means of transportation having such a display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus has a display panel and a backlight for the display panel. The backlight has a reflector consisting of a plurality of modules with a plurality of reflectively configured cavities, and a plurality of light sources ...