US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Feb. 17 for "Optical system, imaging device, optical contact sensor, and image-projecting device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,188, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical system, imaging device, optical contact sensor, and image-projecting device" was invented by Takuya Imaoka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system includes lenses and a prism. The prism includes a first transmissive surface, a first reflective surface, a second reflective surface, and a second transmissive surface. A first rectangular region at a reduction conjugate point: has an imaging relationship in which the first rectangular region is conjugate to a second rectangular region at a magnifi...