US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Guidance system for head-mounted displays" (Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,162, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Guidance system for head-mounted displays" was invented by Clinton Smith (Kirkland, Wash.) and Samuel Pepperwood (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a head-mounted display device includes an optics block and a varifocal actuation system coupled to the optics block. The varifocal actuation system utilizes at least one of a tandem retaining configuration, a tandem guidance system, and a tandem preload configuration to minimize parasitic motion errors associated with the head-mounted display device. In some embo...