ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,256, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Kyungpook National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation (Daegu, South Korea) and Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Holographic camera system" was invented by Hak-Rin Kim (Daegu, South Korea), Tae-Hyun Lee (Daegu, South Korea), Ki Hong Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Kee Hoon Hong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Joong Ki Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holographic camera system includes an imaging lens, a polarizer configured to circularly polarize light incident from the imaging lens, a geometric phase lens with a p...