ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,679, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Coretronic Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Lighting system and projection device" was invented by Shih-Chen Chiou (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Yu-Hsiang Deng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting system includes a first light source module providing a first light beam, a second light source module providing a second light beam, a beam splitting element with a first and a second side, a light condensing element, and a light homogenizing element. The beam splitting element guides the first portion of the first light beam to be output from the first side to be incident on the light homo...