US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on April 7 for "Systems and methods for alignment of optical components" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,266, issued on April 7, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for alignment of optical components" was invented by James Schultz (Redmond, Wash.), Zhiqiang Liu (Redmond, Wash.) and Randall Scott Toy (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed methods of assembling a head-mounted display may include supporting a head-mounted display frame, moving the head-mounted display frame to align a frame coordinate system with a fixed optical coordinate system, holding a projector assembly, and moving the projector assembly to align a projected image with the fixed optical c...