ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,732, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Displays having progressive lenses" was invented by Kevin A Keilbach (Boulder, Colo.), Barbara J Kruse (San Francisco), Vikrant Bhakta (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Hyungryul Choi (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display may include a waveguide that directs image light towards an eye box within a field of view (FOV). A first lens may transmit world light to the waveguide and a second lens may transmit the world light and the image light to the eye box. One or more surfaces of the first and second lenses may collectively have a first region with a fir...