ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,843, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Microlens display apparatus for use in an augmented reality system" was invented by Jinxin Fu (Fremont, Calif.) and Sihui He (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to augmented reality (AR) systems. More specifically, embodiments described herein provide for an AR projection system and AR devices having the projection system. In one or more embodiments, an augmented reality device includes a projection system. The projection system includes a light engine. The light engine includes...