ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,970, issued on July 8, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Dimming control with display-directed activation light for an optical assembly" was invented by Robin Sharma (Redmond, Wash.), Afsoon Jamali (Redmond, Wash.), Ming Lei (Bellevue, Wash.), Sho Nakahara (Bothell, Wash.), Nihar Ranjan Mohanty (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Karol Constantine Hatzilias (Kenmore, Wash.) and Carl Chancy (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical assembly is configured to receive visible scene light at the backside of the optical assembly and to direct the visible scene light on an optical path toward the eyeward side. ...