US Patent Issued to Magic Leap on Sept. 30 for "Diffraction gratings formed by metasurfaces having differently oriented nanobeams" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,636, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Diffraction gratings formed by metasurfaces having differently oriented nanobeams" was invented by Dianmin Lin (Los Altos, Calif.), Michael Anthony Klug (Austin, Texas), Pierre St. Hilaire (Belmont, Calif.), Mauro Melli (San Leandro, Calif.), Christophe Peroz (Setagaya-ku Tokyo, Japan) and Evgeni Poliakov (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metasurfaces provide compact optical elements in head-mounted display systems to, e.g., incouple light into or outcouple light out of a waveguide. The metasurfaces may be formed by a plurality of repeating u...