ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,493, issued on March 24, was assigned to Nippon Seiki Co. Ltd. (Niigata, Japan).

"Vehicular display device" was invented by Kazunari Hamada (Niigata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular display device emits display light from an opening toward a windshield to cause a virtual image and a real image of a display image represented by the display light to be visually recognized and includes a display unit that includes a display element, transmits light emitted by a light source, and displays the display image, a reflection unit that reflects light representing the display image displayed on the display unit toward the wind...