US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 1 for "Modulator integration for laser used with display" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,904, issued on April 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Modulator integration for laser used with display" was invented by Shiva Shahin (Seattle) and Dale Eugene Zimmerman (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser device for use with a display including a plurality of pixels is disclosed. The laser device includes a gain section and a modulator. The gain section is electrically coupled with a first current or voltage source. The gain section is configured to selectively amplify an optical power of light reflecting within the gain section based on a first drive current or voltage supp...