ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,333, issued on Oct. 7.
"Ultracompact liquid-crystal-on-silicon display system" was invented by Zhenyi Luo (Union Park, Fla.), Yuqiang Ding (Union Park, Fla.), Shin-Tson Wu (Orlando, Fla.), Yun Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Fenglin Peng (Redmon, Wash.) and Guohua Wei (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to improve efficiency of in-coupling into, propagating through, and out-coupling from, electromagnetic waves (e.g., in a visible light wavelength range), a waveguide system arrangement. The waveguide system arrangement includes an illumination assembly; an in-coupler, a waveguide substrate, and a parallelepiped p...