ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,143, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).
"Optical and photonic configurations and devices for selective privacy protection" was invented by Benjamin Glen McCarty (Washington) and Johannes Jacobus Louw Basson (Arlington, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure below is directed to optical/photonic devices and systems configured to control polarization state of light for selective privacy protection in optical imaging. In particular, the various embodiments disclosed below provide an application of polarization manipulation techniques with multiple optical polarization filters to enabl...