ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,572, issued on June 17, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Configuring optical layers in imprint lithography processes" was invented by Vikramjit Singh (Pflugerville, Texas), Michael Nevin Miller (Austin, Texas), Frank Y. Xu (Austin, Texas) and Shuqiang Yang (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imprint lithography method of configuring an optical layer includes selecting one or more parameters of a nanolayer to be applied to a substrate for changing an effective refractive index of the substrate and imprinting the nanolayer on the substrate to change the effective refractive index of the substrate such t...