ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,107, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Optical system" was invented by Satoshi Kuzuhara (Osaka, Japan) and Tsuneo Uchida (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prism includes a first intermediate imaging position at which a component in a first direction of the light flux is imaged and a second intermediate imaging position at which a component in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction of the light flux is imaged, different from the first intermediate imaging position. At least one of the first intermediate imaging position and the second inte...