US Patent Issued to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING on Aug. 11 for "Spatial light modulator for reduction of certain order light" (California, Indiana, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,771, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Spatial light modulator for reduction of certain order light" was invented by Juan P. Pertierra (Indianapolis), Martin J. Richards (Gig Harbor, Wash.) and Barret Lippey (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel spatial light modulator (SLM) includes a cover glass, and modulation layer, and a plurality of pixel minors, and separates unwanted, reflected light from desired, modulated light. In one embodiment, a geometrical relationship exists between the cover glass and the pixel minors, such that light that reflects from the c...