ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,478, issued on April 29, was assigned to Asphetek Solution (Chengdu) Ltd. (Chengdu, China), ADVANCED OPTOELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY INC. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Asphetek Solution Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Lens assembly and augmented reality glasses" was invented by Shiue-Lung Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chien-Cheng Kuo (Hukou, Taiwan), I-Ming Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chang-Ho Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ying-Hung Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chung-Wu Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens assembly and Augmented Reality (AR) glasses, including a waveguide substrate, a wiring layer, a protective layer, an eye tracking component...