ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,170, issued on March 31, was assigned to BARCO NV (Kortrijk, Belgium).
"Optical projection with combined beams" was invented by Dries Jan Doornaert (Wevelgem, Belgium), Bart Henri Johanna Maximus (Oudenaarde, Belgium), Raveen Kumaran (British Columbia, Canada) and Dirk Leontina Maes (Bissegem, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical assemblies comprise plural spatial light modulators arranged to modulate light in plural light beams. The modulated light is combined in angular space by converging light beams onto a target area of an image plane. Light from the image plane may be received at an entrance pupil of an optical syste...