ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,794, issued on July 29, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Methods and systems for displaying stereoscopy with a freeform optical system with addressable focus for virtual and augmented reality" was invented by Chunyu Gao (Tucson, Ariz.) and Hong Hua (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Several unique hardware configurations and methods for freeform optical display systems are disclosed. A freeform display system includes primary freeform optical element(s) and secondary freeform optical element(s) in tiled arrangements to expand the horizontal field of view (FOV) or the vertical field of view. The system m...