US Patent Issued to Apple on May 6 for "Light output devices and light outputting methods for optical systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,597, issued on May 6, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Light output devices and light outputting methods for optical systems" was invented by Mark A. Arbore (Los Altos, Calif.), Mohsen Kamandar Dezfouli (San Jose, Calif.), Yongming Tu (Redwood City, Calif.), Jeremy D. Witmer (San Jose, Calif.), Huiyang Deng (San Jose, Calif.), Alfredo Bismuto (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Petr Markov (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Configurations for an optical system used for guiding light and reducing back-reflection back in an output waveguide is disclosed. The optical system may include an output waveguide defined in a sla...