US Patent Issued to Silicon Light Machines on Dec. 23 for "MEMS based spatial light modulators and applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,695, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Silicon Light Machines Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"MEMS based spatial light modulators and applications" was invented by Stephen Hamann (Mountain View, Calif.), Alexander Payne (Ben Lommond, Calif.), Lars Eng (Los Altos, Calif.), James Hunter (Campbell, Calif.), Tianbo Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Gregory Jacob (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Spatial light modulators (SLMs) and systems using same are described. Generally, the system includes a laser, a fixture holding a workpiece to be processed using the laser, illumination optics to illuminate the SLM with laser light, imagin...