ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,504, issued on May 13, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America (Peachtree City, Ga.).

"Polarization rotator for head-up display" was invented by David Kay Lambert (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Steven Craig Bower (Fayetteville, Ga.).

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 module having a picture generation unit emitting a light field. A plurality of linear polarizers are arranged in a stack. A first of the linear polarizers receives the light field from the picture generation unit. A last of the li...