ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,587, issued on April 22, was assigned to Fathom Optics Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Manufacturing light field prints" was invented by Thomas Anthony Baran (Somerville, Mass.) and Matthew Waggener Hirsch (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for manufacturing a light field print using a printing press. The techniques include: identifying at least one characteristic of the printing press at least in part by printing at least one calibration pattern; obtaining content to be rendered using the light field print, the content comprising multiple scene views; generating, based at least in part on the content and the at l...