US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Sept. 8 for "Illumination device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,598, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Illumination device" was invented by Gen Yonezawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masa Miyao (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination device according to the present technology includes a light source unit including a light emitting unit that emits light, a phase modulation unit that performs spatial light phase modulation on incident light from the light source unit, and a control unit that causes light from the light source unit to be incident on a plurality of areas into which a phase modulation surface of the phase modulation unit is divided at differ...