ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,576, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to WAVEFRONT TECHNOLOGY INC. (Paramount, Calif.).

"Optical products, masters for fabricating optical products, and methods for manufacturing masters and optical products" was invented by Christopher Chapman Rich (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Joel Mikael Petersen (Valley Village, Calif.), John Michael Tamkin (Pasadena, Calif.), Roger Winston Phillips (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Phillip Christopher Harvey (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical product can reproduce a first 3D image of at least part of a first 3D object and a second 3D image of at least part of a second 3D object...