ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,820, issued on Jan. 20.

"System and method for generating a sub-hogel light field" was invented by Andrew Bartlett (St. John's, Canada) and Jordan Peckham (Portugal Cove-St. Philips, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sub-hogel configuration for a high-definition light field display that can be used in the design of optical device and three-dimensional light field display technology. Three-dimensional holographic pixels (hogels) composed of monochromatic sub-hogels and a designed metasurface act as a directional optical element for a light field display. The sub-hogel structure design and method is suited for an achromatic metas...