US Patent Issued to II-VI DELAWARE on July 8 for "Spatial light modulator incorporating aberration correction" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,088, issued on July 8, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Spatial light modulator incorporating aberration correction" was invented by Luke Stewart (Gladesville, Australia), Glen W. Baxter (Hornsby Heights, Australia) and Jeremy Bolger (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spatial light modulator (100) comprises a liquid crystal material (104), first and second electrodes (106, 108) disposed on opposing sides of the liquid crystal material (104), and a diffractive optical element (120) disposed between the electrodes (106, 108) and extending laterally across the modulator (100). The diffractive optical element...