US Patent Issued to Magic Leap on April 21 for "Method and system for patterning a liquid crystal layer" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,961, issued on April 21, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Method and system for patterning a liquid crystal layer" was invented by Ravi Kumar Komanduri (Austin, Texas) and Chulwoo Oh (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical master is created by using a nanoimprint alignment layer to pattern a liquid crystal layer. The nanoimprint alignment layer and the liquid crystal layer constitute the optical master. The optical master is positioned above a photo-alignment layer. The optical master is illuminated and light propagating through the nanoimprinted alignment layer and the liquid crystal layer is...