US Patent Issued to Magic Leap on May 13 for "System for providing illumination of the eye" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,518, issued on May 13, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"System for providing illumination of the eye" was invented by Nizan Meitav (Kiryat Ata, Israel), Fahri Yaras (Cedar Park, Texas) and David Carl Jurbergs (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thin transparent layer can be integrated in a head mounted display device and disposed in front of the eye of a wearer. The thin transparent layer may be configured to output light such that light is directed onto the eye to create reflections therefrom that can be used, for example, for glint based tracking. The thin transparent layer can be configured to reduc...