ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,204, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Picture generation apparatus, projection apparatus, and vehicle" was invented by Shimao Li (Shenzhen, China), Yunfei Yan (Dongguan, China) and Yuchen Chen (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picture generation apparatus includes at least a light source assembly, a spatial light modulation assembly, a beam adjustment assembly and a lens assembly. The light source assembly is configured to generate a first beam. The spatial light modulation assembly is configured to modulate the first beam to generate a picture beam. The le...