ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,685, issued on June 24, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Display apparatus for vehicle and method of controlling the same" was invented by Jong Wan Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Hyung Soo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus for a vehicle includes a cockpit part including an opening, a guide part mounted within the cockpit part, a display unit disposed within the cockpit part, moved along the guide part so that the display unit has a curved line-shaped moving path and configured to appear and disappear through the opening, and a driving part configured to prov...