ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,232, issued on April 14, was assigned to HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany), AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH (Jena, Germany).

"Display device for a vehicle" was invented by Martin Mugge (Geseke, Germany), Johannes Scheuchenpflug (Baar-Ebenhausen, Germany), Christoph Erler (Jena, Germany), Carsten Hohmann (Warstein, Germany), Alfons Michaelis (Borchen, Germany), Siemen Kuehl (Jena, Germany) and Petr Vojtisek (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device for the interior of a vehicle comprises light sources, light guides, and holograms. The light guides are arranged next to one another a...