ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,716, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Kwangwoon University Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Coding method for compressing complex hologram" was invented by Young Ho Seo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a coding method for compressing a complex hologram, in which the coding method includes: (b) creating a complex vector plane divided into unit regions, and giving an index to each unit region of the complex vector plane; (c) projecting the complex hologram to the complex vector plane by regarding the complex hologram as a complex vector, and assigning the index given to t...