US Patent Issued to Snap on May 12 for "Support arm thermal structure for extended reality glasses" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,380, issued on May 12, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Support arm thermal structure for extended reality glasses" was invented by Andrea Chantal Ashwood (Culver City, Calif.) and Stephen Andrew Steger (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support arm assembly for a head-worn device includes a metal support arm configured to form a rear face, a bottom face, and a top face of an enclosure for a projector, thermally coupled to the projector to act as a heatsink, configured to structurally attach to a rear structural element of the head-worn device, and configured to structurally attach to an optical element ho...