ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,875, issued on Sept. 22.
"Virtual imaging methods and displays for real world scenes" was invented by John Youngfu Chen (Hillsborough, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display of real world scenes comprising one or more optical mirror film surfaces having one or more selected deformations on said surfaces comprising one or a plurality of selected extended line indentation ordered deformations forming facets, including a selected plurality of selected disordered and ordered deformations forming a plurality of flat mirror facets, a plurality of folded mirror ridges, and a plurality of mirror vertices capable of capturing and tr...