ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,585, issued on March 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Pixel shifting a time-division multiplexed display to increase perceived display resolution" was invented by Ravi Kumar Komanduri (Milpitas, Calif.), Oleg Yaroshchuk (Mountain View, Calif.), Shreyas Potnis (Kitchener, Canada) and Michael Anthony Klug (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-division multiplexed projection display is pixel shifted to produce an increased perceived display resolution. A polarizing beam splitter (PBS) divides input unpolarized display light into two orthogonal linear polarizations and directs them to two PBS arms....