ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,122, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Spatial light modulators, methods of operating and manufacturing the same, and apparatus including spatial light modulator" was invented by Sunil Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minkyung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junghyun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Byunggil Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spatial light modulator includes a substrate, a blocking layer provided on one surface of the substrate, a lower reflective layer provided on the blocking layer, an upper reflective layer facing the lower reflective layer, a...