US Patent Issued to KOPIN on Nov. 4 for "Nighttime heads up display unit apparatuses, systems, and methods" (California, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,378, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KOPIN Corp. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Nighttime heads up display unit apparatuses, systems, and methods" was invented by Nicolas Steven Peterson (Gilmanton, N.H.) and Michael James Hoppe (Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are taught to optically fuse first output light containing visual data with second output light emitted from a night vision device. A waveguide display is aligned relative to an eyepiece of the night vision device. When the waveguide display is in an ON state and second output light exits the eyepiece, the second output light passes through the wave...