ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,681, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Light modulation element, beam steering device including the same, and electronic device including beam steering device" was invented by Duhyun Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sunil Kim (Osan-si, South Korea), Junghyun Park (Seoul, South Korea), Changgyun Shin (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Byunggil Jeong (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a light modulation element including a first contact layer, a second contact layer, an active layer provided between the first contact layer and the second contact layer, a fir...