ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,391, issued on July 15, was assigned to WAVEFRONT TECHNOLOGY INC. (Paramount, Calif.).
"Optical products, masters for fabricating optical products, and methods for manufacturing masters and optical products" was invented by Christopher Chapman Rich (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Roger Winston Phillips (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Joel Mikael Petersen (Valley Village, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical product can be configured, when illuminated, to reproduce an image that appears to be a 3D image of at least a part of a 3D object. The optical product can include a surface comprising a plurality of portions. Each portion can...