ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,704, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Waveguide with birefringent organic solid crystal layer" was invented by Tingling Rao (Bellevue, Wash.), Wanli Chi (Sammamish, Wash.), Xiayu Feng (Kirkland, Wash.), Yun-Han Lee (Redmond, Wash.), Andrew John Ouderkirk (Kirkland, Wash.) and Poer Sung (Woodinville, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element includes a waveguide body that is configured to guide light by total internal reflection from an input end to an output end, an input coupling structure located at the input end for coupling light into the waveguide body, and a...