US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 12 for "Reduced incidental projection of in-dash projector" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,778, issued on May 12, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Reduced incidental projection of in-dash projector" was invented by John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Ryan Joseph Gorski (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.), Brendan Francis Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Haibo Zhao (Northville, Mich.) and Janice Lisa Tardiff (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-integrated projector projects an image onto a window of a vehicle including a layer of holographic film. Upon detecting a sensed condition indicative of a possible projection of the image onto a surface beyond the window, projection o...