US Patent Issued to DENSO International America, DENSO on July 14 for "Graphics system operation failure detection" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,812, issued on July 14, was assigned to DENSO International America Inc. (Southfield, Mich.) and DENSO Corp. (Japan).

"Graphics system operation failure detection" was invented by Kazuhiro Yamamoto (Novi, Mich.), Ural Kota (Novi, Mich.) and Kevin Mchugh (Brownstown, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display system for detecting a failure of a display includes a graphics generator configured to generate a checker pattern for an invisible area of the display that is invisible to a human user, wherein the checker pattern generated by the graphics generator alternates between a first pattern and a second pattern. Display output hard...