ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,117, issued on July 8, was assigned to Applied Physics Inc. (New York).

"Media projection within light sphere dome" was invented by Gianni Martire (New York) and Jerry Tessendorf (Pendleton, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media presentation system can include a media generation component, a projection component, a first redirection component, and a display component. The media generation component can generate video imagery, and the projection component can project one or more beams containing the video imagery in an initial direction. The first redirection component can redirect the beam(s) from the initial direction to a subs...