US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Aug. 11 for "Prisms for independent control over virtual image and world leakage angles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,728, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Prisms for independent control over virtual image and world leakage angles" was invented by Evan Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kevin Messer (Mountain View, Calif.), Samarth Bhargava (Saratoga, Calif.) and David Alexander Sell (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an optical device includes a waveguide having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface. The waveguide further includes an input coupler and an output coupler disposed over the first surface or the second surface. The optical device furt...