ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,617, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Optical method and system for light field (LF) displays based on tunable liquid crystal (LC) diffusers" was invented by Jukka-Tapani Makinen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of an example apparatus may include a display, a first controllable diffuser overlaying the display, the first controllable diffuser being selectively operable to diffuse light in a first diffusion direction, and a second controllable diffuser overlaying the display, the second controllable diffuser being selectively operable to diffuse light i...