ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,723, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical system, illumination system, display system, and moving body" was invented by Wahei Agemizu (Osaka, Japan), Kazumasa Takata (Osaka, Japan) and Masaru Fujita (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system includes a light guide member, a prism, and a plurality of light control bodies. The light guide member includes an incident surface on which light is incident, and a first surface and a second surface facing each other. In the light guide member, the second surface is an emission surface of light. The pr...