ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,900, issued on July 1, was assigned to LEIA Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Time-multiplexed multiview backlight, multiview display and method" was invented by Ming Ma (Menlo Park, Calif.) and David A. Fattal (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-multiplexed multiview backlight, display, and method of time-multiplexed multiview backlight operation provide one or both of enhanced spatial resolution and enhanced angular resolution using time-multiplexing. The time-multiplexed multiview backlight includes a light guide configured to guide light as time-multiplexed guided light having different directions during differe...