US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 30 for "Compact display with extended pixel resolution" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,638, issued on June 30, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Compact display with extended pixel resolution" was invented by Terry Alan Bartlett (Dallas), Stephen Aldridge Shaw (Plano, Texas) and Vivek Kumar Thakur (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described examples include an apparatus includes a dichroic wedge and a spatial light modulator optically coupled to the dichroic wedge. The apparatus also includes a display optically coupled to the spatial light modulator. The display includes a waveguide having a first side and a second side and a first diffractive optical element on the first side of the wavegui...