ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,852, issued on May 19, was assigned to Coretronic Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Optical assembly with air gap and projection apparatus" was invented by Shi-Wen Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Ming-Feng Hou (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical assembly includes a first prism and a second prism. The first prism has a first surface. The first surface includes a first optical region. The second prism has a second surface. The first and the second surface are disposed facing each other. The second surface includes a second optical region, in which on a first reference plane, an orthographic projection of the first optical re...