US Patent Issued to Southern Methodist University on Feb. 24 for "System and method for a three-dimensional optical switch display device" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,845, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Southern Methodist University (Dallas).

"System and method for a three-dimensional optical switch display device" was invented by Alexander R. Lippert (Dallas), Maha Aljowni (Dallas), Bo Li (Dallas), Uroob Haris (Irving, Texas) and Cecilia O'Brien (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a system, apparatus and method for generating a three-dimensional image and/or printing a three dimensional structures, the system comprising: a medium comprising a photocurable monomer and an optical molecular switch molecule that has a non-fluorescent state and a fluorescent state, wherein th...