ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,384, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Optical device, display apparatus including same, and method for extending length of optical path" was invented by Dmitriy Evgenyevich Piskunov (Moscow region, Russia), Svetlana Vladimirovna Danilova (Moscow region, Russia) and Nikolay Victorovich Muravev (Moscow region, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device is provided. The optical device includes a display apparatus including the same, and a method of extending an optical path. The optical device includes at least one electroactive optical cell configured to adjust a phase...