ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,079, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Augmented reality device controlled by external device, and method of operating same" was invented by Kihyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Donghee Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality (AR) device controlled by an external device is provided. The AR device includes a waveguide, an optical engine configured to project a virtual object onto the waveguide, a communication interface configured to establish pairing with a wearable device and transceive data to and from the wearable device, memory stori...