US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on July 14 for "Catadioptric lens assembly having two or more lens components" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,281, issued on July 14, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Catadioptric lens assembly having two or more lens components" was invented by Timothy L. Wong (West St. Paul, Minn.) and John D. Le (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical lens assembly includes a middle-lens disposed between, and bonded to, an eye-lens and a display-lens, each of the lenses including an active lens region defined as a maximum lens region configured to transmit an image emitted by a display therethrough. A first at least partially light transmitting film is disposed on, and substantially conforming to, a curve...