US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 26 for "Vehicle HUD with external screen projection" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,954, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle HUD with external screen projection" was invented by Brendan Francis Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Ryan Joseph Gorski (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.), Haibo Zhao (Northville, Mich.) and Janice Lisa Tardiff (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device, e.g., in a vehicle, can receive a communication trigger for a heads-up display (HUD) in a vehicle to project light external to a vehicle. The device can then identify a projection parameter to visibly project the light external to ...