ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,885, issued on July 1, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Optical lens set and image combiner" was invented by Pierre-Alexandre Blanche (Tucson, Ariz.), Chen Liang (Tucson, Ariz.) and Angeles Marcia Almanza-Workman (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for an optical lens set and optical combiner are described herein. In an example, an apparatus has a first side and a second side. The apparatus includes an optical combiner and a first optical lens disposed at the first side. The image combiner is configured to output light emitted by a light projector as a virtual image projection within a fiel...