US Patent Issued to e-Vision Smart Optics on Dec. 9 for "Switchable micro-lens array for augmented reality and mixed reality" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,209, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to e-Vision Smart Optics Inc. (Sarasota, Fla.).

"Switchable micro-lens array for augmented reality and mixed reality" was invented by Ronald Blum (Roanoke, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A see-through near eye display, which can be modulated in such a manner to synchronize with electronic enabled micro-lenses of a switchable micro-lens array, wherein when pixels of the near eye display are lit the micro-lenses of the micro-lens array are present; thus, a virtual image can be formed and seen by the eye of a user. When the see-through near eye display is not lit, the micro-lenses are not present, ...