ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,376, issued on May 12, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Techniques for securing and aligning a projector assembly and a waveguide assembly by coupling support legs of the waveguide assembly to corresponding receptacles of the waveguide assembly" was invented by Randall Scott Toy (Sammamish, Wash.), James Schultz (Redmond, Wash.) and Zhiqiang Liu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical assemblies may include a projector assembly and a waveguide assembly. The projector assembly may include at least one light subprojector and a housing including at least one receptacle. The waveguide a...