ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,110, issued on April 14, was assigned to Wicue Inc..

"Dual-purpose layered optical structure" was invented by Fenghua Li (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical structure with high transmittance of an underlying display and reflective properties is disclosed. The optical structure has a semi-transmittance and semi-reflective layer and may have an optical compensation layer which may allow a higher transmittance of light through the semi-transmittance and semi-reflective layer. Light from the display is highly transmittable through the optical structure to a user. When the display is off, reflected light from a u...