ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,057, issued on July 14, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Method of fabricating molds for forming eyepieces with integrated spacers" was invented by Mauro Melli (San Leandro, Calif.), Chieh Chang (Cedar Park, Texas), Ling Li (Cedar Park, Texas), Melanie Maputol West (San Francisco), Christophe Peroz (Tokyo), Ali Karbasi (Coral Gables, Fla.), Sharad D. Bhagat (Austin, Texas) and Brian George Hill (Duxbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are disclosed for fabricating molds for forming eyepieces having waveguides with integrated spacers. The molds are formed by etching deep holes (e.g., 5 micro metre to ...