ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,423, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Hiroya Oue (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhiro Takada (Kanagawa, Japan), Tetsuro Komatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuya Muraoka (Kanagawa, Japan), Motoki Asari (Tokyo) and Mayu Ofuji (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel is capable of displaying at least one meter image including a pointer image constituting a pointer and a mark image constituting a mark that the pointer is adapted to point to. A processor controls display status of the mark image. The processor causes the mark image to ...