ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,308, issued on July 14.

"Optical systems with multi-layer holographic combiners" was invented by Matthew D. Hollands (Cambridge, Great Britain), Michael D. Simmonds (Kent, Great Britain), Richard J. Topliss (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Thomas M. Gregory (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a display module that generates image light and an optical system that redirects the light towards an eye box. The optical system may have first hologram structures that replicate the light over multiple output angles onto second hologram structures. The second hologram structures may focu...