US Patent Issued to Compagnie Plastic Omnium on Nov. 3 for "Vehicle part with user interface" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,749, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Compagnie Plastic Omnium SE (Lyons, France).

"Vehicle part with user interface" was invented by Issam Khayat (Sainte-Julie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle part including a light source capable of emitting a light image, a micro-mirror plate capable of projecting the light image outside the vehicle part in the form of a hologram, a privacy filter located between the light source and the hologram, and a sensor capable of detecting the presence of any object in a projection plane coinciding at least partially with the hologram."

The patent was filed on Dec. 15, 2022, under Applicat...