ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,639, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyota, Japan).

"Information display apparatus" was invented by Koji Hirata (Kyoto, Japan), Akio Misawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Takumi Nakada (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information display apparatus capable of reducing the viewpoint movement of a driver and achieving safer driving in consideration of the relationship between the traveling speed and the stopping distance of a vehicle is provided. The information display apparatus is configured to display image information in a transportation and comprises a HUD apparatus disposed between a windshield of the transporta...