ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,033, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Augmented reality device including variable focus lenses and operating method thereof" was invented by Kyookeun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bonkon Koo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Doyoun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Harry Edward Milton (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an augmented reality device including a variable focus lens, an eye tracking sensor configured to emit light to eyes of a user, receive the light reflected by the eyes of the user, and detect a plurality of feature points based on the light ref...