ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,960, issued on July 8, was assigned to DigiLens Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Waveguide architectures and related methods of manufacturing" was invented by Jonathan David Waldern (Diablo, Calif.), Milan Momcilo Popovich (Leicester, Great Britain) and Alastair John Grant (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating head-up displays (HUDs) using waveguides incorporating Bragg gratings in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are provided. The term HUD is typically utilized to describe a class of displays that incorporates a transparent display that presents data without requiring users ...