ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,710, issued on July 29, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Metasurfaces with light-redirecting structures including multiple materials and methods for fabricating" was invented by Mauro Melli (San Leandro, Calif.), Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad (Milpitas, Calif.), Christophe Peroz (Tokyo), Pierre St. Hilaire (Belmont, Calif.) and Dianmin Lin (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Display devices include waveguides with metasurfaces as in-coupling and/or out-coupling optical elements. The metasurfaces may be formed on a surface of the waveguide and may include a plurality or an array of sub-wavelength-scale ...