US Patent Issued to Korea Electronics Technology Institute on May 13 for "Hologram printing method and apparatus using mask" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,713, issued on May 13, was assigned to Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Hologram printing method and apparatus using mask" was invented by Sung Hee Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Young Min Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Ji Soo Hong (Seoul, South Korea) and Jin Soo Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for printing a hologram by using a mask are provided. A method generates a hologram fringe pattern, splits the hologram fringe pattern on a hogel basis, generates the split hogels, masks a part of the generated hogel, and prints the masked hogel on a hologram medium....