US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Nov. 25 for "Optical system, image projection apparatus, and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,137, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical system, image projection apparatus, and imaging apparatus" was invented by Qinghua Zhao (Miyagi, Japan), Katsu Yamada (Osaka, 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 conjugate with both of a magnification conjugate point on a magnification side and a reduction conjugate point on reduction side, including: a magnification optical system including a plurality of lens elements...