ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,470, issued on June 17, was assigned to Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Device for projecting an image into the eye of a user" was invented by Fabian Rainouard (Grenoble, France) and Christophe Martinez (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device for projecting an image onto an eye, the device comprising a stack comprising light guides, each light guide being coupled to a plurality of diffraction gratings, electrodes, each electrode being associated with a plurality of diffraction gratings of various light guides, each electrode being configured to activate each diffraction grating...