US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on May 26 for "Head up display apparatus with a bright energy efficient backlight for a vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,676, issued on May 26, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Head up display apparatus with a bright energy efficient backlight for a vehicle" was invented by Wolfgang-Andreas Huber (Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head up display apparatus for a vehicle includes an imaging unit that generates a projection light beam with display content and includes a transmissive display indication layer with selectively controllable display elements distributed over an area, a matrix backlight that provides backlighting therefor and includes selectively controllable light sources distributed along the tr...