ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,740, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Optical module for head-mounted device" was invented by Ivan S. Maric (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jan K. Quijalvo (San Jose, Calif.), Anna V. Mirabella (Palo Alto, Calif.), Wey-Jiun Lin (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Jeremy C. Franklin (San Francisco), Forrest C. Wang (Petaluma, Calif.), Marinus Meursing (Poway, Calif.), Blake N. Trekell (San Francisco) and Aidan N. Zimmerman (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted device is configured to present content to a user and includes a housing, a first optical module coupled to the housing, a second optical...