ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,053, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).

"Projection assembly for a vehicle, comprising a side pane" was invented by Klaus Fischer (Alsdorf, Germany), Dagmar Schaefer (Herzogenrath, Germany) and Roberto Zimmermann (Solingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projection assembly for a vehicle, includes a vehicle side pane, which is equipped with a reflective coating, and a projector, which is directed at a region of the vehicle side pane, wherein the radiation of the projector is predominately p-polarized and wherein the reflective coating is suitable for reflecting p-polarized rad...