ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,255, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical element" was invented by Akiko Watano (Minamiashigara, Japan), Ryuji Saneto (Minamiashigara, Japan), Katsumi Sasata (Minamiashigara, Japan), Fumitake Mitobe (Minamiashigara, Japan), Hiroshi Sato (Minamiashigara, Japan) and Yukito Saitoh (Minamiashigara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an optical element that can display a clear image having no blurriness in AR glasses or the like. The optical element includes: a substrate; and a laminate that is provided on the substrate and where a plurality of liquid crystal layers obtained by aligning a liqui...