US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on July 14 for "Reverse pass-through glasses for augmented reality and virtual reality devices" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,103, issued on July 14, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Reverse pass-through glasses for augmented reality and virtual reality devices" was invented by Nathan Matsuda (Seattle), Brian Wheelwright (Sammamish, Wash.) and Joel Hegland (Snohomish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for providing a reverse pass-through view of a user of a headset display to an onlooker includes an eyepiece comprising an optical surface configured to provide an image to a user on a first side of the optical surface. The device also includes a first camera configured to collect an image of a portion of a fac...