ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,709, issued on July 29, was assigned to Visteon Global Technologies Inc. (Van Buren Township, Mich.).
"Display backlight for avoiding windshield reflections" was invented by Pawel Murzyn (Chelmsford, Great Britain), James Arthur Carpenter (Eagle, Mich.) and Paul Fredrick Luther Weindorf (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for backlighting a display to avoid producing a reflection. The system may include a light source configured for generating a light, a collimated lightguide configured for collimating the light to a collimated light, and a direction changing element configured for directing the collimated light to a...