ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,636, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Vactronics Technologies Inc. (Miaoli County, Taiwan).

"Method for manufacturing a light-guide optical element" was invented by Yung-Chun Wang (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Yung-Sheng Cheng (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Hsang-Yang Lin (Miaoli County, Taiwan) and Sen-Tsung Hsiao (Miaoli County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-guide optical element and a method for manufacturing the same, includes: a coating step including forming at least one functional coating on a surface of a substrate, and cutting the substrate to form at least one optical coating strip; a mounting step including placing ...