ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,089, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Hella Saturnus Slovenija d.o.o. (Ljubljana, Slovenia).
"Dia and automotive dia projection system" was invented by Andrej Wagner (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Janze Bebar (Celje, Slovenia), Marusa Vek (Kamnik, Slovenia), Marko Virsek (Grosuplje, Slovenia) and Matevz Smuc (Ljubljana, Slovenia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dia for an automotive dia projection system has a transparent substrate with an opaque coating in portions thereof, thereby forming a binary pattern for projection. The pattern features a dither noise microstructure, such that an associated image is projectable giving the perception o...