ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,157, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to LUMUS LTD. (Ness Ziona, Israel).

"Air-gap free perpendicular near-eye display" was invented by Yochay Danziger (Kfar Vradim, Israel) and Naamah Levin (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A near-eye display comprised of a projector having an exit aperture through which is transmitted a plurality of rays including a first and second extreme ray defining opposite ends of an image angular field of view and the physical exit aperture, and a chief ray defining a midpoint of the image angular field view. The near-eye display further includes a light-guide optical element (LOE) having first ...