ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,048, issued on March 17, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Display-optimized light field representations" was invented by V. Michael Bove Jr. (Wrentham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatuses are described herein for transmitting encoded image data for display on a module of a 3D display. Image data comprising 2D parallax views of a parallax frame for the 3D display may be accessed, and each module of the 3D display may be configured to display a portion of the parallax frame. Such image data may be encoded, where the encoding comprises generating a group of pictures (GOP) that com...