ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,173, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SAAB AB (Linkoping, Sweden).

"Device, system and method for changing the direction of emitted light cones" was invented by Johan Zanden (Norrahammar, Sweden), Anna-Karin Holmer (Joenkoeping, Sweden) and Stefan Andersson (Habo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an image generator device (100) for changing the direction of at least one emitted light cone at a surface (113), comprising an image generator (130) and a fibre optical faceplate (110) having a first (112) and a second surface (113), the fibre optical faceplate (110) being arranged to transmit light ...