ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,420, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Near eye display" was invented by John D. Le (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kun Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yi Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Youngshik Yoon (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hao Zheng (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hongdong Li (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jianru Shi (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A near eye display system includes a display block, a shift block and a controller. The display block includes a display panel and one or more optical elements that direct light beams generated by the display panel to an image receiver to perceive an image displayed b...