ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,739, issued on July 21, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Space floating video display apparatus and light source apparatus" was invented by Koji Hirata (Kyoto, Japan), Koji Fujita (Kyoto, Japan) and Toshinori Sugiyama (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure enables a space floating video having few ghosts to be obtained, and a space floating video apparatus suitable for inputting without causing fewer erroneous operations. The space floating video display apparatus includes: a display panel for displaying a video; a light source apparatus that supplies light of a specific polarization direction...