ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,391, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Projector with rotatable projection lens" was invented by Masaru Amano (Saitama, Japan), Yukiko Nagatoshi (Saitama, Japan), Hironobu Kayano (Saitama, Japan) and Kenji Ito (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projector includes a projection lens and a projector body. In the projection lens, a U-shaped optical path is formed by optical axis to optical axis. A lens barrel is a U-shaped barrel. A housing of the projector body includes a storage section. The projection lens is supported rotatably about the optical axis with respect to the housing, in an up-down dir...