US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on April 14 for "Heads-up display with ghost image mitigation" (American, Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,908, issued on April 14, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Heads-up display with ghost image mitigation" was invented by Stephan J. Pankratz (Eagan, Minn.), Matthew B. Johnson (Woodbury, Minn.), William F. Edmonds (Chavannes-des-Bois, Switzerland) and Jan Thomas Krapp (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heads-up display for viewing by an eye of a passenger of a vehicle includes a windshield with a reflective polarizer disposed adjacent to a first outermost glass surface of the windshield, a display configured to emit an image toward the windshield, the windshield reflecting between 15...