ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,421, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Projector" was invented by Koji Miura (Tokyo) and Kazumasa Kaneda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projector according to the present disclosure includes: an illumination optical system; a separator; a first light valve; a second light valve; and a projection optical system. The illumination optical system generates illumination light. The separator separates the illumination light from the illumination optical system into first illumination light and second illumination light. The first light valve is illuminated with the first illumination light separated by ...