ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,007, issued on May 27, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"System and method for fabricating liquid crystal polarization holograms" was invented by Xingzhou Tu (Redmond, Wash.), Yun-Han Lee (Redmond, Wash.), Mengfei Wang (Kirkland, Wash.), Stephen Choi (Seattle) and Lu Lu (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a light outputting element configured to output a first beam propagating toward a beam interference zone from a first side of the beam interference zone. The system also includes a reflective assembly configured to reflect the first beam back as a second beam propaga...