ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,718, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Optical system and image display device" was invented by Hiroyuki Shobayashi (Osaka, Japan), Satoshi Kuzuhara (Osaka, Japan), Kazuhiro Minami (Osaka, Japan), Hiroaki Okayama (Nara, Japan) and Akira Hashiya (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system includes an incidence part changing a traveling direction of the incident image light from a display part and an expansion part that divides and duplicates the image light traveling from the incidence part. The expansion part includes a first and a second expansion...