ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,021, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Projector including parallelizing lens and polarizers" was invented by Masanori Yasuda (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projector of the present disclosure includes a light source outputting a white light containing a first polarization component and a second polarization component, a parallelizing lens having a lens face parallelizing the white light outputted from the light source and a planar face opposite to the lens face, a first polarizer having a light incident surface and a light exiting surface and transmitting a light of the first polariza...