ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,221, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Method of forming a spatial light modulator" was invented by Wei Chien Choo (Rosebery, Australia), Nitesh Gulati (Rosebery, Australia), Glenn Wayne Baxter (Hornsby Heights, Australia) and Er-Chien Wang (Canberra, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method (400) of forming a spatial light modulator device (100). The method (400) comprises, at step (401), providing a planar silicon substrate. At step (403), a patternable material (508) is deposited onto a bonding surface (506) of the silicon substrate (502). At step (404), the patt...