ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,073, issued on June 3, was assigned to Visteon Global Technologies Inc. (Van Buren Township, Mich.).
"Active public/privacy display panels" was invented by Pawel Murzyn (Chelmsford, Great Britain), Danail Krasimirov Totev (Sofia, Bulgaria) and Paul Fredrick Luther Weindorf (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel includes a first polarizer, two twisted nematic cells, a second polarizer, and a display. The first twisted nematic cell transfers light in response to a first control signal. In an off state, a polarity of the light is rotated in a first twist. In an on state, the polarity of the light is maintained. The s...