ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,091, issued on July 7, was assigned to ROLLING OPTICS INNOVATION AB (Solna, Sweden).

"Synthetic images with animation of perceived depth" was invented by Daniel Parrat (Uppsala, Sweden), Axel Lundvall (Bjursas, Sweden) and Erik Egemalm (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a synthetic image device includes providing of a focusing element array. An image layer is arranged in a vicinity of a focal distance of focusing elements, whereby a synthetic image composed of enlarged portions of the image layer becomes perceivable for a viewer. The image layer includes an array of image cells, each associated ...