ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,192, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Wearable display device utilizing a composite field of view" was invented by Brian T. Schowengerdt (Seattle), Ivan Li-Chuen Yeoh (Wesley Chapel, Fla.) and Lionel Ernest Edwin (Hollywood, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable display device suitable for use in an augmented reality environment is disclosed. The wearable display device can include a projector configured to project light through diffractive optical elements that then distributed the light to multiple display regions. Each of the display regions can be arranged to project light out of the ...