ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,444, issued on June 17, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Variable focus assemblies" was invented by Timothy Mark Dalrymple (Plantation, Fla.), David Tinch (Plantation, Fla.), Michael Anthony Klug (Plantation, Fla.), Clinton Carlisle (Plantation, Fla.), Jason Donald Mareno (Plantation, Fla.), Arno Leon Konings (Plantation, Fla.), Christopher Peter Couste (Plantation, Fla.), Charles Robert Schabacker (Plantation, Fla.), Bach Nguyen (Plantation, Fla.), Christopher John Laning (Windisch, Switzerland) and Roman Patscheider (Winterthur, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example head-mounted display device in...