ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,485, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle display device" was invented by Nobuyuki Takahashi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Jun Shihaku (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle display device includes a display device, a reflective member that causes the reflected light to be projected onto a projection target portion, and a control unit that controls the display light. The display device includes a backlight unit and a light-transmitting plate-shaped display unit that causes the irradiation light incident from the irradiation surface to the illumination target surface to be transmitted and emitte...