ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,264, issued on July 15, was assigned to BARCO VISUAL SOLUTIONS INC. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Projection systems and methods" was invented by Gerwin Damberg (Vancouver, Canada), Eric Jan Kozak (Burnaby, Canada), Raveen Kumaran (Burnaby, Canada) and Anders Ballestad (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image display apparatus and methods may use a single imaging element such as a digital mirror device (DMD) to spatially modulate plural color channels. A color channel may include a light steering element such as a phase modulator. Steered light from a light steering element may be combined with or replaced by additional light ...