ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,229, issued on July 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods to increase efficiency and reduce see through artifacts of reflective waveguides" was invented by Jamie Elizabeth Kowalski (Oakland, Calif.), Shreyas Potnis (Kitchener, Canada), Rhys Anderson (Kitchener, Canada), Kirill Afanasev (Waterloo, Canada), Eliezer Glik (San Diego), Timothy Paul Bodiya (Shanghai) and Victor Isbrucker (Fenelon Falls, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waveguide including first and second sections has a first molded optic material forming a portion of the geometry of one or more Bragg gratings disposed on one surface of th...