ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,057, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system includes: a projection optical system for projecting an image light ray output from a display element and forming an image; and a light guide including an in-coupling region for guiding the ray to an inside of the guide and allowing it to travel in a first axis direction within the guide, and a propagation region for allowing t...