ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,218, issued on April 7, was assigned to DigiLens Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Holographic wide angle display" was invented by Milan Momcilo Popovich (Leicester, Great Britain), Jonathan David Waldern (Los Altos Hill, Calif.), Alastair John Grant (San Jose, Calif.), Wyatt L. Hendrick (San Diego) and James H. Stanley (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for displaying an image, including: an input image node configured to provide at least a first and a second image modulated lights; and a holographic waveguide device configured to propagate the at least one of the f...