ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,310, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE (Creteil, France).

"Head-up display" was invented by Pierre Mermillod (Creteil, France) and Stephane Gache (Creteil, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-up display includes, inside a housing, an image-generating device configured to generate a light beam which passes through an optical output element, a first reflector configured to reflect the light beam as an intermediate beam, and a second reflector configured to reflect the intermediate beam as an output beam. The housing includes an opening closed by a window through which the output beam passe...