US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 31 for "Methods and apparatus for multi-segment illumination of spatial light modulators" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,685, issued on March 31, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus for multi-segment illumination of spatial light modulators" was invented by Shashank Dabral (Allen, Texas), Gavin Perrella (Dallas) and Akeem Whitehead (Garland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an illumination source including a first illumination source segment and a second illumination source segment. The apparatus also includes driver circuitry coupled to the illumination source, the driver circuitry including a first driver coupled to the first illumination source segment, the first driver configured to pro...