ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,601, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Radiant Opto Electronics (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. (Jiangsu, China) and Radiant Opto-Electronics Corp. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Optical element, image waveguide method, head-mounted display apparatus and diffractive waveguide display" was invented by Kuo-Feng Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Hui-Wen Lu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Wei-Chen Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Hui-Ching Hsueh (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element includes a waveguide substrate, first and second optical film structures, and a sub-wavelength nanostructure. The waveguide substrate has first and second sides, a light e...