US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Feb. 10 for "Motor vehicle having a projection unit, and method for operating a motor vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,175, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Motor vehicle having a projection unit, and method for operating a motor vehicle" was invented by Alexander Buck (Garching bei Muenchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle has a projection unit for projecting graphical or character-based information on a projection surface. The projection unit is connected to a monitoring circuit of the motor vehicle that is configured to project the graphical or character-based information. The monitoring circuit includes a brightness sensor for determining a value for the ambient brightness around the...