ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,136, issued on March 31, was assigned to Envisics Ltd. (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).

"Hologram calculation" was invented by Timothy Smeeton (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Daniel Burnham (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and Jamieson Christmas (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of determining a hologram of an image for a system comprising a display device and viewing system are disclosed. Some embodiments implement a multi-stage procedure comprising (i) determining a first complex light field at an entrance pupil of the viewing system, (ii) determining a second complex light field at a se...