US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on March 3 for "Transparent display systems and methods" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,079, issued on March 3, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Transparent display systems and methods" was invented by Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Sean Rodrigues (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transparent display system comprises a transparent display, a touch-sensitive layer, and a heater layer. The touch-sensitive layer is connected to the transparent display and is configured to detect a user's touch on the transparent display. The heater layer is connected to the transparent display and comprises a trace array and one or more electrodes. The e...