ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,888, issued on July 1, was assigned to META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Optical assembly with polarization volume holographic element" was invented by Jacques Gollier (Sammamish, Wash.), Brian Wheelwright (Sammamish, Wash.), Scott Charles McEldowney (Redmond, Wash.), Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai (Snohomish, Wash.), Babak Amirsolaimani (Redmond, Wash.) and Ying Geng (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical assembly includes a partial reflector that is optically coupled with a first polarization volume holographic element. The partial reflector is capable of receiving first light having a first circ...