US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on April 7 for "Polarization mechanism to reduce waveguide reflections in a head-worn display" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,255, issued on April 7, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Polarization mechanism to reduce waveguide reflections in a head-worn display" was invented by Joseph Daniel Lowney (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polarization mechanism for a head-mounted device includes a linear polarization film and a waveplate film configured to polarize ambient light before it is guided to the eye of a user by a waveguide. The waveplate film is further configured to receive a reflection of the polarized ambient light off the waveguide and polarize the reflection in a circular direction such that the reflection is polari...