ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,729, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Dimming device, display device, and method for driving dimming device" was invented by Yoshihisa Ooishi (Kanagawa Ken, Japan), Koichi Itoh (Kanagawa Ken, Japan), Koji Mimura (Kanagawa Ken, Japan), Hideki Nozaki (Okayama Ken, Japan) and Ken Shiiba (Ishikawa Ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dimming device according to the present disclosure includes a dimming panel. The dimming panel includes a dimming layer, a plurality of column electrodes, and a plurality of row electrodes. The dimming layer has a plurality of regions partition...