ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,974, issued on June 3, was assigned to FUTURUS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Light control apparatus, passive light-emitting image source and head-up display system" was invented by Tao Fang (Beijing), Junfeng Xu (Beijing) and Huijun Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light control apparatus, a passive light-emitting image source and a head-up display system are provided. The head-up display system includes a light source, a collimator element, a light concentrator element, a diffuser element, a liquid crystal panel and a transflective reflection device for displaying; the collimator element is configured to adjust an exit...