ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,717, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle display device" was invented by Yuki Miyoshi (Makinohara, Japan), Yasuhiro Katsumata (Makinohara, Japan), Naoto Tsubakihara (Makinohara, Japan), Hiroshi Sano (Makinohara, Japan) and Takahiro Osawa (Shimada, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle display device includes a housing mounted on a vehicle, an image display device provided in a housing section of the housing, and a heat sink provided at a position to contact the image display device, in which the housing has an opening that is open upward, the heat sink is attached at a position to separate the h...