ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,996, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Display device and head-up display" was invented by Satoshi Mikayama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Display device includes a plurality of light emitters and current drawing unit that achieves local dimming by the plurality of light emitters on light emission surface. Current drawing unit includes T driver circuits, where T is an integer of 2 or larger. Each of the T driver circuits is connected to at least one light emitter of the plurality of light emitters. Light emission surface is divided into N local zones in corresp...