ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,618, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Image projection apparatus" was invented by Yasuhiko Kunii (Kyoto, Japan), Nobuyuki Kaku (Kyoto, Japan), Masahiro Kishigami (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroyuki Nakamura (Kyoto, Japan), Megumi Kurachi (Kyoto, Japan) and Takuya Shimizu (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Based on information about a vehicle, the information can be projected and displayed onto a road surface or the like. An image projection apparatus, which projects an image, includes an acquisition unit that acquires the information about the vehicle, and an image projection unit that projects the image b...