ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,307, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Head-up display image generating unit with folding mirror" was invented by Wolff von Spiegel (Muhltal, Germany), Daniel Kruger (Bad Konig, Germany) and Christian Junge (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-up display for a transport comprising an image generating unit for generating an image, and an optical unit for projecting the image through a mirror unit is disclosed. The imaging unit comprises a folding mirror arranged between a light source and a display element. The light source radiates light, at ...