ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,589, issued on July 28, was assigned to Coretronic Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Illumination system and projection apparatus" was invented by Yi-Tien Lu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Chin-Wen Huang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Kuan-Lun Chen (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination system provides an illumination light beam and includes a light source device providing a first light beam, a dichroic element, a lens module, and a wavelength conversion element disposed on a transmission path of the first light beam and configured to convert the first light beam into a second light beam. The dichroic element is disposed between the ...