ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,157, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MATRIXED REALITY TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Wuxi, China).

"Augmented reality apparatus and optical system therefor" was invented by Bing Xiao (Beijing), Xiaobin Liang (Beijing) and Chi Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an optical system for an augmented reality apparatus, comprising: an image projection source; and a polarizing beam splitter. The polarizing beam splitter is arranged such that light emitted from the image projection source is able to be non-perpendicularly incident on the beam splitting side and be at least partially reflected. The polarizing beam sp...