ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,418, issued on May 20, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Digilens Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Wearable data display" was invented by Milan Momcilo Popovich (Leicester, Great Britain) and Jonathan David Waldern (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transparent wearable data display having a source of collimated light, a deflector for deflecting the collimated light into a scanned beam, and a first of switchable grating elements sandwiched between first and second parallel transparent substrates, which together functioning as a first light guide. A first coupling is provided for directing...