US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on July 8 for "Optical component with illumination layer and lens curvature" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,897, issued on July 8, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Optical component with illumination layer and lens curvature" was invented by Alan Kleiman Shwarsctein (Saratoga, Calif.), Adar Magen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shay Hamer (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination layer is coupled with a glass substrate. A refractive layer is overmolded over the illumination layer. The refractive layer may encapsulate light sources and electrical traces of the illumination layer. A lens curvature is formed in the refractive layer."

The patent was filed on Jan. 23, 2023, under Application...