US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 1 for "Broadband reflector for waveguide assembly in a head-mounted display" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,283, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Broadband reflector for waveguide assembly in a head-mounted display" was invented by David Douglas Bohn (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partially reflective thin film coating is utilized on an optical substrate that is affixed to a waveguide-based optical combiner in a see-through display of a mixed-reality head-mounted display (HMD) device to partially reflect a forward propagating holographic image light back to the user's eye. The thin film coating may be implemented as a broadband reflector over the angular range a...