US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on June 16 for "Illumination apparatus and projector" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,668, issued on June 16, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Illumination apparatus and projector" was invented by Hiroaki Miya (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination apparatus includes a light source device configured to a light containing a first color light, a second color light, and a third color, and a polarization converter converting a first polarized light of the light emitted from the light source device into a second polarized light, wherein the polarization converter has a polarization separation part separating the light emitted from the light source device into the first polarized light a...