ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,011, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Image projection apparatus" was invented by Akira Kurozuka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image projection apparatus includes: a plurality of light sources configured to respectively emit laser lights of colors different from each other; at least one display element configured to modulate each of the laser lights emitted from the plurality of light sources, on the basis of a video signal; an illumination optical system configured to guide the laser lights emitted from the plurality of light sources, to the display element;...