US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Free-form light field displays for VR/AR headsets" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,581, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Free-form light field displays for VR/AR headsets" was invented by Brian Wheelwright (Sammamish, Wash.), Ying Geng (Bellevue, Wash.) and Kieran Connor Kelly (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head mounted display for virtual reality imaging includes a pixel array including multiple pixels configured in a two-dimensional surface, each pixel providing multiple light beams forming an image provided to a user. The head mounted display also includes a first optical element to provide a central portion of a field of view for the image thro...