ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,993, issued on April 8, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Vehicle information display apparatus and information display system for vehicle" was invented by Koji Hirata (Kyoto, Japan) and Koji Fujita (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle information display apparatus using a part of a shield glass of a vehicle to display information on an inside of the vehicle includes: a video display apparatus provided inside the vehicle to project video light of the information; a transparent sheet provided on an inner surface of the display region set to the part of the shield glass; and a light direction converting pan...