US Patent Issued to Vision Products on June 30 for "Head-mounted display with user-operated control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,871, issued on June 30, was assigned to Vision Products LLC (Campbell, Calif.).

"Head-mounted display with user-operated control" was invented by Michael P. Browne (San Mateo, Calif.) and Kevin L. Mellott (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include an external facing camera arranged to capture images of an external environment in front of a user, a display configured to display images, and a beam combiner that provides a first optical path and a second optical path. The first optical path directs images from the display to an eye, and the second optical path directs light from the external environment to the...