ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,318, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GENTEX Corp. (Zeeland, Mich.).
"Display assembly" was invented by John A. VanderPloeg II (Zeeland, Mich.), Ethan J. Lee (Byron Center, Mich.) and Andrew D. Weller (Holland, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to a rearview assembly. The rearview assembly may have a support member, a camera, a backlight, and/or a display. The support member may be substantially transparent to infra-red light. The camera may be disposed in a first direction relative the support member and configured to capture one or more infra-red images. The backlight may comprise a light guide and...