ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,429, issued on May 20, was assigned to LUMUS LTD. (Ness Ziona, Israel).

"Optical aperture multipliers having a rectangular waveguide" was invented by Tsion Eisenfeld (Ashkelon, Israel), Yochay Danziger (Kfar Vradim, Israel), Eitan Ronen (Rehovot, Israel), Ronen Chriki (Lod, Israel), Mordechai Gilo (Rehovot, Israel) and Elad Sharlin (Mishmar David, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes a first waveguide, having parallel first and second faces and parallel third and fourth faces forming a rectangular cross-section, that guides light by four-fold internal reflection and is associated with a coupling-out config...