ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,490, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Display device and means of transportation" was invented by Manrico Joesph (Ober-Ramstadt, Germany), Oliver Jakoby (Heusenstamm, Germany), Sait Kalender (Darmstadt, Germany), Jorg Thomas (Dietzenbach, Germany), Martin Thomas Nowak (Singapore) and Kerstin Thiel (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a display device and to a means of transportation having such a display device. The display device comprises a display panel and a backlight for the display panel. The backlight comprises a ref...