ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,925, issued on April 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual image display optical architectures" was invented by Zhiqiang Liu (Redmond, Wash.) and Akash Arora (Normandy Park, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual image display system includes: a light source for projecting an image; a first beamsplitter including a first free-form curved surface; and a second beamsplitter including a second free-form curved surface facing the first free-form surface of the first beamsplitter, in which the first free-form curved surface is separated from the second-free form curved surface of the second ...