ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,507, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to DigiLens Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Transparent waveguide display with grating lamina that both couple and extract modulated light" was invented by Robert D. Brown (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Alastair John Grant (San Jose, Calif.), Wyatt L. Hendrick (San Diego), Milan Momcilo Popovich (Leicester, Great Britain), James H. Stanley (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jonathan David Waldern (Diablo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides an apparatus for displaying an image comprising: a first optical substrate comprising at least one waveguide lay...