ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,698, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).
"Eye-imaging apparatus using diffractive optical elements" was invented by Chunyu Gao (Plantation, Fla.), Chulwoo Oh (Sammamish, Wash.), Michael Anthony Klug (Austin, Texas) and Evyatar Bluzer (Yuvalim, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of eye-imaging apparatus using diffractive optical elements are provided. For example, an optical device comprises a substrate having a proximal surface and a distal surface, a first coupling optical element disposed on one of the proximal and distal surfaces of the substrate, and a second coupling optical eleme...