US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on March 18 for "Optical system, image projection apparatus, and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,659, issued on March 18, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical system, image projection apparatus, and imaging apparatus" was invented by Qinghua Zhao (Nara, Japan) and Takuya Imaoka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to an optical system internally having an intermediate imaging position that is conjugated to a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side and a reduction conjugate point on a reduction side, respectively, the optical system including: a magnification optical system having A (A is an integer of three or mor...