ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,678, issued on March 17, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Hologram acquisition apparatus having beam splitter and annular spherical array" was invented by Kee Hoon Hong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ki Hong Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hologram acquisition apparatus and a hologram acquisition system are disclosed. A hologram acquisition apparatus includes a beam splitter configured to split light emitted from an object into a first beam and a second beam, a first reflective optical element configured to receive and emit the first beam to the be...