ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,655, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical system, image projection apparatus, and imaging apparatus" was invented by Takuya Imaoka (Kanagawa, Japan), Qinghua Zhao (Miyagi, Japan) and Katsu Yamada (Osaka, 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 comprising: a magnification optical system positione...