US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on May 5 for "Optical methods for reducing point spread function in phase light modulator applications" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,782, issued on May 5, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Optical methods for reducing point spread function in phase light modulator applications" was invented by Alexander Lyubarsky (Dallas), Terry A. Bartlett (Dallas) and Kristofer Oberascher (Van Alstyne, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes at least one laser configured to produce laser light and an optical element configured to produce shaped light responsive to receiving the laser light. The system also includes an optical phase modulator (OPM) optically coupled to the optical element, the OPM configured to modulate the shaped light to produce mod...