US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Jan. 27 for "Eyebox steering and field of view expansion using a beam steering element" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,684, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Eyebox steering and field of view expansion using a beam steering element" was invented by Ozan Cakmakci (San Mateo, Calif.), Oscar Alberto Martinez (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yi Qin (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eyewear device includes a lightguide having a world-side surface and an eye-side surface, a display oriented to emit light toward the lightguide, and a beam steering element that includes a first polarization grating positioned along an optical path between the display. The first polarization grating diffracts light emitt...