ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,536, issued on March 17, was assigned to MAGIC LEAP INC. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Bragg gratings for an augmented reality display system" was invented by Frederic Montfort (Froideville, Switzerland) and Carlos Alberto Macias Romero (Pully, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted display system can include a head-mountable frame, a light projection system configured to output light to provide image content to a user's eye, and a waveguide supported by the frame. The waveguide can be configured to guide at least a portion of the light from the light projection system coupled into the waveguide to present the image conten...