ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,531, issued on July 28, 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 and a light guide body that guides the light flux to the light-transmitting member. A light beam at a center of the light flux emitted from the display is incident while being inclined with respect to a normal direction of the incident surface of the light guide body. The light flux incident on the incident surface of the lig...