ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,595, issued on July 15, was assigned to Distance Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Eye position based spatial anchors for heads-up displays" was invented by Joona Petrell (Tampere, Finland), Mikko Strandborg (Hangonkyla, Finland) and Jetro Lauha (Kerava, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relative position of a given eye of user(s) is determined with respect to a semi-reflective surface of an optical combiner, using a tracker. A given reflection region is identified on the semi-reflective surface from which light emitted by a light-emitting surface (122, 606) of an autostereoscopic display is reflected toward the given eye. A given ...