ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,457, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Eyepiece for head-mounted display and method for making the same" was invented by Chieh Chang (Cedar Park, Texas), Christophe Peroz (Tokyo), Ryan Jason Ong (Austin, Texas), Ling Li (Cedar Park, Texas), Sharad D. Bhagat (Austin, Texas) and Samarth Bhargava (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, includes providing a wafer including a first surface grating extending over a first area of a surface of the wafer and a second surface grating extending over a second area of the surface of the wafer; de-functionalizing a portion of the surface gra...