ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,848, issued on May 27, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Reflective exit pupil replicator for HUD system" was invented by Kai-Han Chang (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Manoj Sharma (Troy, Mich.) and Thomas A. Seder (Fraser, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-up display system includes a projector adapted to project an image, a primary reflector, and an exit pupil replicator, the primary reflector adapted to reflect an image projected by the projector to the exit pupil replicator, and the exit pupil replicator adapted to split the projected image into a two-dimensional array of identical projected ima...