US Patent Issued to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE on Feb. 24 for "Apparatus for generating a virtual image having a variable projection distance" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,812, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

"Apparatus for generating a virtual image having a variable projection distance" was invented by Wolff von Spiegel (Bad Homburg, Germany), Bjorn Pablo Richter (Frankfurt, Germany) and Willi Scheffler-Juschtschenko (GroBostheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for generating a virtual image. The device has at least one image-generating unit for producing an image and an optical waveguide for expanding an exit pupil. The optical waveguide has an output coupling region. An optical element for influencing a projection distance for at ...