ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,688, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for annotating points of interest on head-up display" was invented by Jian Wan (Novi, Mich.), Kenneth Michael Mayer (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Clay Wesley Maranville (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Curtis Sai-Hay To (Troy, Mich.), Neha Singhal (Northville, Mich.) and Dima Khanafer (Dearborn Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a head-up display (HUD), a transceiver and a detection unit is disclosed. The transceiver may be configured to receive vehicle information and information associated with a geographical area in...