US Patent Issued to Magic Leap on Sept. 1 for "Microlens collimator for scanning optical fiber in virtual/augmented reality system" (Florida, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,271, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Microlens collimator for scanning optical fiber in virtual/augmented reality system" was invented by Brian T. Schowengerdt (Seattle), Lionel Ernest Edwin (Hollywood, Fla.), Ivan Yeoh (Tampa, Fla.), Aaron Mark Schuelke (Coral Springs, Fla.), William Hudson Welch (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and John Graham Macnamara (Plantation, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display subsystem for a virtual image generation system for use by an end user comprises a planar waveguide apparatus, an optical fiber, at least one light source configured for emitting light from a d...