ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,963, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUIDIENT LLC (Columbia, Md.).

"Systems and methods for reconstructing scenes to disentangle light and matter fields" was invented by David Scott Ackerson (Easton, Md.), Donald J. Meagher (Candia, N.H.), John K. Leffingwell (Madison, Ala.) and Kostas Daniilidis (Wynnewood, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stored volumetric scene model of a real scene is generated from data defining digital images of light that flows multi-directionally in the real scene forming a light field, the light interacting with different types of media that form a matter field. The digital images have been formed b...