ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,062, issued on March 4, was assigned to LUMUS LTD. (Ness Ziona, Israel).
"Lightguide-based optical system for conveying an image" was invented by Yochay Danziger (Kfar Vradim, Israel) and Tsion Axel Eisenfeld (Ashkelon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Specific management of configuration of overlap of facets reduces non-uniformity in an image outcoupled toward a nominal point of observation. A waveguide including at least two parallel surfaces, first, middle, and last partially reflecting facets are configured such that in a geometrical projection of the facets onto one of the surfaces the facets overlap, preferably with adjace...