ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,496, issued on April 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System for generating floating image display" was invented by Kai-Han Chang (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Manoj Sharma (Troy, Mich.), Thomas A. Seder (Fraser, Mich.) and Joseph F. Szczerba (Grand Blanc, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating a centrally located floating image display for a plurality of passengers positioned within a vehicle includes a plurality of displays adapted to project a graphic light image, a plurality of beam splitters, one beam splitter individually associated with each one of the plurality of displays,...