ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,235, issued on June 30, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"System for generating collimated non-coherent bright light using a plurality of optical elements" was invented by Daniel M. Joseph (Winter Garden, Fla.), Veronica Chen (Stanford, Fla.) and Jessica Klouda (Winter Garden, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, comprising: a first array of lasers; a first linear polarizer; a second array of lasers; a second linear polarizer provided at an angle with respect to the first linear polarizer; a first beamsplitter coupled to the first linear polarizer; a phosphor assembly; a collimator lens; a third lin...