US Patent Issued to BHTC on Feb. 17 for "Display device, in particular for a vehicle, with switchable sharing and private modes" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,166, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BHTC GmbH (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Display device, in particular for a vehicle, with switchable sharing and private modes" was invented by Alberto Sanchez Castillo (Lippstadt, Germany) and Willem Hofman (Lippstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The display device comprises an LCD display having a plurality of pixels and a special split electrode design, which makes it possible, using IPS technology, to influence the intensity and homogeneity of the electrical field propagating within a pixel. As a result, each pixel can switch from a sharing mode with maximum luminescence and a symmetric...