ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,459, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Diffractive optical elements-based waveguide architecture for augmented reality glasses with wide field of view" was invented by Vladimir Nikolaevich Borisov (St. Petersburg, Russia), Aleksandr Evgenyevich Angervaks (St. Petersburg, Russia), Nikolay Viktorovich Muravev (Moscow region, Russia), Roman Aleksandrovich Okun (St. Petersburg, Russia), Gavril Nikolaevich Vostrikov (Moscow) and Mikhail Vyacheslavovich Popov (Moscow region, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to augmented reality devices and methods for opera...