US Patent Issued to Magic Leap on May 20 for "Waveguides with integrated optical elements and methods of making the same" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,412, issued on May 20, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Waveguides with integrated optical elements and methods of making the same" was invented by Christophe Peroz (Tokyo), Victor Kai Liu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Samarth Bhargava (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example waveguide can include a polymer layer having substantially optically transparent material with first and second major surfaces configured such that light containing image information can propagate through the polymer layer being guided therein by reflecting from the first and second major surfaces via total internal reflectio...