ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,966, issued on Oct. 14.
"Optical systems for providing polarized light to a waveguide" was invented by Vikrant Bhakta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Guolin Peng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hyungryul Choi (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott M. DeLapp (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display may include a waveguide for providing light to an eye box. The display may include polarization recycling structures having a polarizing beam splitter and a prism. The polarizing beam splitter may transmit a first portion of unpolarized light as first image light having a first polarization and may reflect a second portion of the unpolarized light as second i...