US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on July 1 for "System having an optical transmission layer for dimming enhancement of display comprising an ambient light sensor and method therefor" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,992, issued on July 1, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"System having an optical transmission layer for dimming enhancement of display comprising an ambient light sensor and method therefor" was invented by Tracy J. Barnidge (Marion, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an optical transmission layer configured to allow a first luminance of illuminated images output from a display to pass through the optical transmission layer at a given time and to allow a second luminance of the illuminated images output from the display to pass through the optical transmission layer at another given time....