US Patent Issued to Apple on July 15 for "Optical systems with waveguide deformation mitigation structures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,373, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Optical systems with waveguide deformation mitigation structures" was invented by Vikrant Bhakta (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Guolin Peng (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display system may include a waveguide and an input coupling prism. The waveguide may have a lateral surface with a deformed region. The prism may couple the light into the waveguide at an angle whereby the light first reflects off the deformed region. The display module may include a display panel that provides the light with planar wavefronts. The display module may include a ...