US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 8 for "Compact rim-mounted curved optical see-through lightguide based eyewear as mobile augmented reality display" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,972, issued on July 8, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Compact rim-mounted curved optical see-through lightguide based eyewear as mobile augmented reality display" was invented by Ozan Cakmakci (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Daniel Corbalan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes a lightguide and a display at a top of a head mountable frame. The display is oriented toward an eye-side of the optical device. A reflector is positioned at an eye-side of the optical device and directs light into the lightguide. This orientation and arrangement of components reduces light leaking out of the opt...