ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,703, issued on July 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical system" was invented by Takashi Yonemoto (Minamiashigara, Japan), Yukito Saitoh (Minamiashigara, Japan), Yohei Hamachi (Minamiashigara, Japan) and Makoto Ishiguro (Minamiashigara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide an optical system capable of improving the brightness of a main image while eliminating a ghost image. In an optical system including: an image display device that emits an image; a linear polarizer through which light associated with the image passes; a first quarter wavelength plate which receives the light from the linear ...