US Patent Issued to The Sky Factory, LC on May 27 for "Systems and methods for creating illusions of skylights and windows" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,467, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Sky Factory, LC (Fairfield, Iowa).

"Systems and methods for creating illusions of skylights and windows" was invented by Skye Witherspoon (Fairfield, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for creating trompe-l'oeil skylights and windows where a light emitting image of scene is provided in a structure configured to emulate a skylight or window frame, including an embodiment of a system that modulates using multiple modalities, the light emitted by the light emitting image so as to improve realism experienced by users exposed to the light emitting image over an extended perio...