US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 30 for "System to display a vivid image on solar cells" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,786, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"System to display a vivid image on solar cells" was invented by Songtao Wu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Brian Woods (Brighton, Mich.), Taizo Masuda (Yokohama, Japan) and Ryota Tomizawa (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a device having a lens that directs angles of light toward solar cells and display sections having components that improve image clarity, reflectivity, and v...