ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,316, issued on July 14.

"Display devices with optical sensor waveguide" was invented by Dominic P Cincione (Los Angeles), Brian S Lau (Seattle), Hyungryul Choi (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott M DeLapp (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a first projector, a first waveguide, a second projector, a second waveguide, and an optical sensor that couples the first waveguide to the second waveguide. A third waveguide may overlap the first waveguide, the second waveguide, and the optical sensor. The third waveguide may direct first image light from the first waveguide to the optical sensor and may direct se...