ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,172, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Inline in-coupling optical elements" was invented by Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad (Milpitas, Calif.), Victor Kai Liu (West Point, Calif.), Dianmin Lin (Los Altos, Calif.), Christophe Peroz (Tokyo) and Pierre St. Hilaire (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display system includes a waveguide assembly having a plurality of waveguides, each waveguide associated with an in-coupling optical element configured to in-couple light into the associated waveguide. A projector outputs light from one or more spatially-separated pupils, and at least one of th...