ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,556, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Adeia Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"AR display with IR-controlled pixel-level tinting" was invented by Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.), Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.), Yan Chai (San Jose, Calif.) and Jean-Yves Couleaud (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pixel level transparency control for see-through XR devices is described. An example system comprises an XR display, comprising a transparent waveguide layer, an infrared (IR) waveguide layer disposed on the XR display, and a dimmable layer disposed on the IR waveguide layer. The XR system further comprising, a light ...