ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,725, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Active control of virtual image depth positioning" was invented by Lloyd Frederick Holland (Waterloo, Canada) and Matthew Thomas Valente (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted display device includes a controller configured to activate a display of a head-mounted display device. The head-mounted display device includes an eye-side lens and a world-side lens. The controller may activate the eye-side lens and the world-side lens to display virtual content at a first virtual depth. The controller may deactivate the eye-side lens and th...