ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,806, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Directional illuminator and display apparatus with switchable diffuser" was invented by Sihui He (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jacques Gollier (Sammamish, Wash.), Maxwell Parsons (Seattle), Babak Amirsolaimani (Redmond, Wash.), Wanli Chi (Sammamish, Wash.), Daniel Guenther Greif (Redmond, Wash.), Renate Eva Klementine Landig (Seattle), Xiayu Feng (Kirkland, Wash.), Zhimin Shi (Bellevue, Wash.), Nicholas John Diorio (Duvall, Wash.), Yang Yang (Redmond, Wash.), Giuseppe Calafiore (Redmond, Wash.), Fenglin Peng (Redmond, Wash.), Tanya Malhotra (Redmond, Wash.) and Andrew John Ouderkirk (Redmond, Was...