US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army on Feb. 10 for "Dual-function optic for eye display and camera" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,998, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Dual-function optic for eye display and camera" was invented by Bradley L. Preece (Lorton, Va.) and John M. Hall (Stafford, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For see-through AR displays, the current state of art uses geometric correction to lower the display location error, however this is far from an ideal solution and requires knowing range or pose of the devices. A dual-function optic for eye display & camera is disclosed, wherein a sensor camera imaging optics pipeline with a virtual projection ...