ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,976, issued on June 10, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for determining an eye distance in a pair of data glasses, and data glasses" was invented by Johannes Fischer (Pliezhausen, Germany) and Soeren Sofke (Tuebingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method at least for determining an eye distance between a user's eye and an optical element of an optical system of a pair of data glasses including a virtual retina display. The method includes: generating a scanned laser beam; optically reproducing the scanned laser beam; illuminating a user's eye by means of the optically reproduced scanned lase...