US Patent Issued to OHIRA TECH on Aug. 25 for "Optical planetarium and planetarium system having same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,708, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to OHIRA TECH LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Optical planetarium and planetarium system having same" was invented by Takayuki Ohira (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical planetarium includes a projector configured to project images of stars; a diurnal-axis support mechanism configured to allow the projector to rotate about a diurnal axis; a latitude-axis support mechanism configured to allow the projector to rotate about a latitude axis that is orthogonal to the diurnal axis; an azimuth-axis support mechanism configured to allow the projector to rotate about an azimuth axis that is ...