ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,134, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Head-up display system" was invented by Kazuhiro Minami (Osaka, Japan) and Satoshi Kuzuhara (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-up display system includes a display that emits a light flux visually recognized by an observer as the virtual image, and a light guide body that guides the light flux to the light-transmitting member. The light guide body includes an incident surface on which the light flux from the display is incident and an emission surface from which the light flux is emitted from the light guide b...