ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,555, issued on March 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image display apparatus including a cholesteric liquid crystal layer having a pitch gradient structure and AR glasses" was invented by Hiroshi Sato (Minamiashigara, Japan), Katsumi Sasata (Minamiashigara, Japan) and Yukito Saitoh (Minamiashigara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: an image display apparatus in which the utilization efficiency of a virtual image is high and the virtual image having high brightness uniformity can be displayed to be superimposed on a real image; and AR glasses including the image display apparatus. The image display appar...