ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,158, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Creal SA (Ecublens VD, Switzerland).

"Light-field projector having a small form factor" was invented by Christophe Le Gros (Lausanne, Switzerland), Tomas Sluka (Lausanne, Switzerland), Gregoire Smolik (Chavannes-pres-Renens, Switzerland) and Jonathan Masson (Puidoux, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Light-field projector for projecting an image, the light-field projector comprising a light device (1) comprising at least one light source (10-12) sequentially generating an incident light-beam (101, 102); a collimating element (20) configured to collimate the incident light-beam (101, 10...