US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on March 17 for "Display device with integrated defect detection for louvered blind lamellae" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,248, issued on March 17, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Display device with integrated defect detection for louvered blind lamellae" was invented by Felicitas Wille (Darmstadt, Germany), Oliver Muller (Pfungstadt, Germany), Michael Dobler (Seligenstadt, Germany) and Bjoern Hebestreit (Aschaffenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a virtual image including a display element for generating an image, an optical waveguide for expanding an exit pupil, and an antiglare element, which is arranged after the optical waveguide in the beam path and is configure...