ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,571, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Lumus Ltd. (Ness Ziona, Israel).
"Compound light-guide optical elements" was invented by Eitan Ronen (Rechovot, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system (100) for directing an image towards a user for viewing includes a light-guide optical element (LOE) (10) having parallel major external surfaces (11a, 11b) for supporting propagation of an image by internal reflection, a coupling-out arrangement for coupling out the image towards an eye of the user, and a coupling-in aperture. An image projector (114) includes an image generator (32) for generating an image, collimating optics (...