ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,523, issued on May 13, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America (Peachtree City, Ga.).

"Head-up display with automatic seat-height adjustment" was invented by David Kay Lambert (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Fidelis Itsede (Acworth, Ga.) and Patrick M. O'Connell (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display producing a virtual image that is visible to a driver of the motor vehicle when he is sitting in a driver's seat and his eyes are above a first vertical level and below a second vertical lev...