ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,639, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC PROJECTOR & DISPLAY Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Wavelength conversion device, phosphor wheel, light source device, projection display apparatus, and method for manufacturing wavelength conversion device" was invented by Takashi Ikeda (Osaka, Japan), Yusaku Nishikawa (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshiki Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The wavelength conversion device includes a wavelength conversion element that generates, from incident first light, second light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the first light and third light having a wavelength different from th...