US Patent Issued to Magic Leap on June 24 for "Wide field-of-view polarization switches with liquid crystal optical elements with pretilt" (Colorado, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,553, issued on June 24, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Wide field-of-view polarization switches with liquid crystal optical elements with pretilt" was invented by Chulwoo Oh (Sammamish, Wash.), Ravi Kumar Komanduri (Austin, Texas) and Gary Sharp (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switchable optical assembly comprises a switchable waveplate configured to be electrically activated and deactivated to selectively alter the polarization state of light incident on the switchable waveplate. The switchable waveplate comprises first and second surfaces and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first a...