ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,133, issued on March 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Light source apparatus including splitter and image display apparatus including the same" was invented by Yuuki Maeda (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The light source apparatus includes a light source, and a light guide plate configured to propagate a light beam from the light source in a specific direction. The light guide plate includes a splitter configured to split the light beam from the light source into a plurality of light beams, and to emit the plurality of light beams from the light guide plate. The splitter is configured such that a transmittance...