ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,850, issued on April 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"HUD field of view expansion" was invented by Thomas A. Seder (Fraser, Mich.), Joseph F. Szczerba (Grand Blanc, Mich.), John P. Weiss (Shelby Township, Mich.) and Manoj Sharma (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head up display for a vehicle includes a holographic projector adapted to project a holographic image, a controller adapted to split a holographic image into a first half image and a second half image and calculate phase holograms for each, a phase light modulator adapted to sequentially and alternately receive and encode the fi...