ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,586, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for manipulating light from ambient light sources" was invented by Eric Baerenrodt (Milford, N.H.), Nastasja U. Robaina (Coconut Grove, Fla.), Nicole Elizabeth Samec (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.), Christopher M. Harrises (Nashua, N.H.) and Mark Baerenrodt (Milbrae, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes variable optical material that alters at least one of: incident ambient light, spectral content of incident ambient light or direction of incident ambient light through the optical device in response to a stimulus provid...