ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,630, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Spatial light modulator, LiDAR apparatus including the same, and method of manufacturing the spatial light modulator" was invented by Sunil Kim (Osan-si, South Korea), Junghyun Park (Seoul, South Korea), Duhyun Lee (Yongin-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 modulator including a first reflective layer, a cavity layer provided on the first reflective layer, and a second reflective layer provided on the cavity layer opposite to the first reflective layer, the second...