ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,028, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Optical diamond passband filter" was invented by Jeffrey Kempf (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for optical filtering. In one example, a device includes a spatial light modulator having a two-dimensional array of square, rectangular, or diamond pixels, and a controller coupled to the spatial light modulator. The controller can be configured to write image data representing an image to the spatial light modulator to control the spatial light modulator to display the image for a frame period, and during the frame period, spatially repo...