ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,708, issued on Jan. 27.
"Optical systems having polarization recycling structures" was invented by Thanh Son Nguyen (Campbell, Calif.), Xiaokai Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Yuan Chen (Campbell, Calif.), Zhibing Ge (Los Altos, Calif.) and Jian Gao (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display may include illumination optics, a ferroelectric liquid crystal on silicon (fLCOS) panel, and a waveguide. The illumination optics may produce linear polarized illumination light that is modulated by the fLCOS panel to produce image light. The illumination optics may include light emitters that emit respective wavelengths of the illumi...