US Patent Issued to Magic Leap on Feb. 4 for "Hybrid polymer waveguide and methods for making the same" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,242, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Hybrid polymer waveguide and methods for making the same" was invented by Christophe Peroz (Tokyo), Chieh Chang (Cedar Park, Texas) and Sharad D. Bhagat (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a head-mounted augmented reality display system comprises one or more hybrid waveguides configured to display images by directing modulated light containing image information into the eyes of a viewer. Each hybrid waveguide is formed of two or more layers of different materials. The thicker of the layers is a highly optically transparent "core"...