ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,161, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Air floating video display apparatus including multi-layered polarization separators and a crosstalk shielding member" was invented by Masaki Noda (Kyoto, Japan) and Koji Fujita (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air floating video display apparatus includes a display panel that displays a video, a retroreflector that reflects the video light from the display panel and forms an air floating video in air by the reflected light, and a polarization separator arranged between the display panel and the retroreflector at a predetermined angle with respect to ...