ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,977, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Dualitas Ltd (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).
"Image projection" was invented by Jamieson Christmas (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Mate Karner (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Ruisheng Lin (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and Timothy Smeeton (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diffractive structure arranged to spatially modulate light transformable by a viewing system into a target image. The diffractive structure is configured to generate a plurality of discrete light patterns. Each light pattern corresponds to a different part of the target image. The shape of each d...