ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,285, issued on April 7, was assigned to EVERYSIGHT LTD. (Haifa, Israel).

"Optical display, image capturing device and methods with variable depth of field" was invented by Hanan Shamir (Haifa, Israel) and Asaf Ashkenazi (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical display, suitable for use in a wearable device such as a headset, comprises a pixelated illumination array and a fiber bundle, optionally in the form of a plate. The plate is formed of a plurality of parallel optical fibers extending in the direction of the thickness of the plate, the fibers are of at least two different lengths and are arranged in a spatially s...