ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,225, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical system and image display device" was invented by Satoshi Kuzuhara (Osaka, Japan) and Kazuhiro Minami (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system includes a light guide for guiding an image light ray which is output from a display element and forms an image, to a field of view region of a user as a virtual image. The light guide includes a body having a plate shape, and an in-coupling region and an exit region which are defined in the body. The in-coupling region is configured to allow the image light r...