ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,863, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Projector with phase hologram modulator" was invented by Muralidhar Madabhushi Balaji (Dallas), Jeffrey Matthew Kempf (Dallas) and Terry Alan Bartlett (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projection system includes: an illumination source configured to output illumination light; a phase light modulator (PLM) optically coupled to the illumination source, the PLM configured to: receive the illumination light; phase modulate the illumination light while displaying a phase hologram, to produce modulated light; and projection optics coupled to the PLM, the proje...