ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,707, issued on July 28, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Portable information terminal, terminal body, and attachment" was invented by Fumiaki Esaka (Kyoto, Japan), Hitoshi Akiyama (Kyoto, Japan) and Junji Shiokawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a portable information terminal to which an image projection function can be added, there is provided a technique for improving visibility of a projected image. The portable information terminal has a terminal body and an attachment attached to the terminal body and communicatively connected to the terminal body. The attachment has a projector for projecting an im...