ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,769, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Orbotech Ltd. (Yavne, Israel).

"Systems and methods for reconstruction of digital holograms" was invented by Yigal Katzir (Rishon le Zion, Israel), Boaz Rosenberg (Gadera, Israel) and Nir Turko (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reconstructing a digital hologram of a surface having at least one three-dimensional feature thereon, including acquiring a digital hologram of the surface, reconstructing a wavefront based on the digital hologram, generating a phase map of at least a portion of the surface based on the wavefront, the phase map including phase ambiguities, obta...