ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,703, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Light refraction member, optical system, lighting systems, display systems, moving object, and mold" was invented by Tomohisa Sakaguchi (Kyoto, Japan), Wahei Agemizu (Osaka, Japan), Kazumasa Takata (Osaka, Japan) and Masaru Fujita (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light refraction member includes an incident surface on which planar light is incident, a plurality of refractors that refract the planar light, and an emitting surface from which the planar light refracted by the plurality of refractors is emitted as ...