ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,002, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Utilizing a visible light filter to reduce visibility of fiducial images" was invented by Lasse-Petteri Leppanen (Espoo, Finland), Xiao Chuan Ong (Seattle), Yarn Chee Poon (Redmond, Wash.), Yifei Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wyatt Owen Davis (Bothell, Wash.), Matthew David Ellis (Sammamish, Wash.), Algird Michael Gudaitis (Fall City, Wash.) and Akash Arora (Normandy Park, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example provides a head mounted display (HMD) device comprising a projection system and left eye and right eye display optical path...