US Patent Issued to Elbit Systems on April 29 for "Direct view display with transparent variable optical power elements" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,479, issued on April 29, was assigned to Elbit Systems Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Direct view display with transparent variable optical power elements" was invented by Ornit Amir (Haifa, Israel), Yolanda Landesberg (Haifa, Israel), Aron Arlievsky (Haifa, Israel) and Ofer Nesher (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct view display system (DVDS) and a method to operate it are provided herein. The DVDS may include: a variable optical power element (VOPE); a transparent active image source located with the VOPE on a common optical axis going from an outside scene to an eye position of a viewer; and a time division multiplexer (...