US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on May 27 for "Mounting member and projection optical apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,960, issued on May 27, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mounting member and projection optical apparatus" was invented by Takahiro Takizawa (Suzaka, Japan), Naoto Takehana (Azumino, Japan), Hirofumi Okubo (Matsumoto, Japan) and Takeshi Hirai (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting member mounts an imaging apparatus on a projection optical apparatus that projects image light. The mounting member includes a first plate part to which the imaging apparatus is fixed, the first plate part having a shape of a planar plate, and a second plate part having a shape of a planar plate and extending from the first pl...