US Patent Issued to Snap on July 22 for "Optical waveguide" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,748, issued on July 22, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Optical waveguide" was invented by Stephen Mason (Rochester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical waveguide for a head up display is disclosed. The optical waveguide is configured to provide pupil expansion in two dimensions and having an input end and an output end and a first axis substantially parallel to the direction of propagation of light in the waveguide and substantially parallel with a direction from the input end to the output end. The optical waveguide comprising: an input region at the input end; a beam splitter configured to ex...