ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,831, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Directionally dependent optical features apparatus and method" was invented by Anna M. Hiszpanski (Livermore, Calif.), Joshua D. Kuntz (Livermore, Calif.), Eric Meshot (Livermore, Calif.), Kerry G. Krauter (Livermore, Calif.), Elaine Lee (Livermore, Calif.), Andrew J. Pascall (Livermore, Calif.) and Marcus A. Worsley (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Directionally dependent optical effects are produced from faceted micrometer-scale substructures. The directionally dependent optical effects can appear as one specific ...