US Patent Issued to Seurat Technologies on April 7 for "Monolithic semiconductor-based optically addressable light valve comprising a liquid crystal layer" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,281, issued on April 7, was assigned to Seurat Technologies Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Monolithic semiconductor-based optically addressable light valve comprising a liquid crystal layer" was invented by Selim Elhadj (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monolithic transmissive or reflective light valve system able to withstand operation with high optical fluence and high average power lasers is described. The light valve includes a liquid crystal layer on an alignment layer, a first epitaxial doped semiconductor transparent electrode on a photoconductor layer made of a first wide bandgap or ultrawide bandgap semi- insula...