ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,067, issued on July 1, was assigned to Envisics Ltd (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).
"Illumination system and method" was invented by Ian Bledowski (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Konstantin Deichsel (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Neil Collings (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and Jamieson Christmas (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination system is arranged to output a light beam for illuminating a scene. The system comprises a spatial light modulator arranged to receive incident light, and to output light comprising a first component and a second component. The first component comprises incident lig...