ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,182, issued on April 22, was assigned to META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Reflector orientation of geometrical and mixed waveguide for reducing grating conspicuity for near-eye displays" was invented by Wai Sze Tiffany Lam (Lynnwood, Wash.), Wanli Chi (Sammamish, Wash.), Yang Yang (Redmond, Wash.) and Dominic Meiser (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waveguide display system include a waveguide, an input coupler configured to couple display light into the waveguide, a first pupil expander, and a second pupil expander. The first pupil expander is configured to deflect, at a first plurality of locatio...