US Patent Issued to LUMUS on March 18 for "Light-guide optical element employing polarized internal reflectors" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,672, issued on March 18, was assigned to LUMUS LTD. (Ness Ziona, Israel).

"Light-guide optical element employing polarized internal reflectors" was invented by Yochay Danziger (Kfar Vradim, Israel) and Daniel Michaels (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-guide optical element (LOE) includes a transparent substrate having two parallel major external surfaces for guiding light within the substrate by total internal reflection (TIR). Mutually parallel internal surfaces within the LOE are provided with a structural polarizer which is transparent to light polarized parallel to a primary polarization transmission axis...