ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,296, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Projection apparatus that performs rotation correction" was invented by Hitoshi Shimizu (Saitama, Japan), Takeharu Omata (Saitama, Japan), Kensuke Masui (Saitama, Japan) and Shoki Kasahara (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projection apparatus capable of, when an image input from an external device and an OSD image are rotated by rotation of a projection lens, performing rotation correction suitable for the respective images is provided. A projection apparatus (1) includes a housing; a projection lens (3) that has a holder and that is rotatably attached to ...