ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,666, issued on June 17, was assigned to WET (Sun Valley, Calif.).

"System and method of altering the appearance of liquid and solid physical objects or forms" was invented by Mark Fuller (Sun Valley, Calif.), James Doyle (Sun Valley, Calif.), Gautam Rangan (Sun Valley, Calif.), Scott Winslow (Sun Valley, Calif.), Isaiah Gernhardt (Sun Valley, Calif.) and Ting Zhang (Sun Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for altering the visual appearance of moving physical forms is disclosed. The moving physical forms may include solids, liquids, gasses and any combination thereof. The system and method may include vid...