ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,899, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China) and OPTICS VALLEY LABORATORY (Wuhan, China).

"Optically addressable pixelated spatial light modulator and spatial light field modulation method" was invented by Hui Gao (Wuhan, China), Ke Xu (Wuhan, China), Wei Xiong (Wuhan, China), Xuhao Fan (Wuhan, China) and Xinger Wang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optically addressable pixelated spatial light modulator, comprising: a laser light source, a structured light field encoding projection module, and a superpixel metasurface device. The structured light field encoding...