US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on April 8 for "Beam shaping optic for light sources" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,992, issued on April 8, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Beam shaping optic for light sources" was invented by Qi Zhang (Kirkland, Wash.), Robin Sharma (Redmond, Wash.), Andrew John Ouderkirk (Redmond, Wash.), Karol Constantine Hatzilias (Kenmore, Wash.), Christopher Yuan-Ting Liao (Seattle) and Gregory Olegovic Andreev (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure includes near-eye optical elements configured to suppress stray infrared light. Infrared light sources illuminate an eyebox area. A combiner layer may receive reflected infrared light and direct the reflected infrared ...