ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,447, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to WET (Sun Valley, Calif.).
"Pixelated water display and design tools therefor" was invented by Mark Fuller (Sun Valley, Calif.) and Gautam Rangan (Sun Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water display including a number of pixels or manifolds that may include water nozzles to emit streams of water and/or other utilities such as lighting is described. The water streams may be pixelated so as to provide a high resolution waveform or other choreography. The choreography transitions between waveforms to provide the appearance of a cascading or undulating wave. A tool to design the water di...