ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,609, issued on June 9, was assigned to ARTIENCE LAB INC. (Chiba, Japan).

"Optical deflection device, image display device, signal device, image recording medium, and image reproduction method" was invented by Akira Shirakura (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This optical deflection device has a light source light-emitting units, a transparent medium, and a holographic diffraction grating disposed on the transparent medium without air interposed therebetween, the optical deflection device being configured so that divergent rays incident on the transparent medium from the light source light-emitting units are made parallel by...