ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,177, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Compact augmented reality / virtual reality display" was invented by Eric C. Haseltine (Silver Spring, Md.), Joseph L. Olson (Pasadena, Calif.) and Michael P. Goslin (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of an augmented reality (AR)-capable display device for displaying light generated by a display onto a predefined field of view are disclosed herein. Within one implementation, the display device comprises a mount assembly configured to removably attach with a mobile computing device associated with the display, to there...