ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,680, issued on May 13, was assigned to VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE (Creteil, France).

"Display device" was invented by Stephane Korczak (Creteil, France), Michael Irzyk (Creteil, France), Ciprian Musat (Creteil, France), Patrick Corduan (Creteil, France) and Nour Eddine El Ouardi (Creteil, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a display device (1) comprising: -a cover glass (10); -a back-lighting device (20), which is designed to generate a source light beam; -a modulator (12), which is securely fastened to the cover glass and located between said cover glass and the back-lighting device so as to rec...