ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,288, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Rainbow reduction for waveguide displays" was invented by Yifei Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.), Yarn Chee Poon (Redmond, Wash.) and Mathew David Watson (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rainbow artifact mitigation system includes an angular dependent filter configured to receive light and to transmit light according to one or more angular transmission functions. The one or more angular transmission functions define light transmission as a function of incident angle for the angular dependent filter, The angular dependent filter is conf...