ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,952, issued on June 23, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Full array local dimming graphics optimization for automotive heads-up display" was invented by Daniel Cashen (Troy, Mich.), Esaias Pech (Rochester, Mich.) and Adinath Jadhav (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive heads-up display (HUD) calibration system includes a back-lit HUD system of an automobile, the back-lit HUD system being configured for full array local dimming (FALD) via a plurality of independently-controlled back-lit regions, and a computing system configured to optimize a set of graphics for projection by the back-lit HUD...