ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,076, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Coretronic Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Projection device and safety protection method of projection device" was invented by Yao Lei Huang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Sheng-Han Yang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projection device and a safety protection method of the projection device are provided. The projection device calculates a warning range according to lens information. Whether an object enters the warning range is detected. The projection device is controlled to reduce brightness of a light source or turn off the light source in response to the object entering the warning ...