ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,353, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOPPAN INC. (Tokyo).

"Moire displays, devices for generating moire-producing pattern, systems for generating moire-producing pattern, and methods for generating moire-producing pattern" was invented by Yumi Takizawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pattern for producing a moire image with a sense of movement and technique for creating such patterns. A moire display includes: a first pattern; and a second pattern disposed offset from the first pattern by a predetermined distance, the second pattern having a phase which continuously changes relative to the first pattern in at least one reg...