ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,724, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MAGIC LEAP INC. (Plantation, Fla.).
"Low-profile beam splitter" was invented by Jahja Trisnadi (Cupertino, Calif.), Pierre St. Hilaire (Belmont, Calif.), Hui-Chuan Cheng (Cooper City, Fla.), Clinton Carlisle (Parkland, Fla.), Michael Anthony Klug (Austin, Texas) and Kevin Richard Curtis (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beamsplitter can include a first surface with a diffractive optical element, a second surface normal to the first surface, and a beam splitting surface arranged at an angle to the second surface that is less than 45 degrees. The beamsplitter may be configured to i...