US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 27 for "Illuminating spatial light modulator with LED array" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,845, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Illuminating spatial light modulator with LED array" was invented by Ishan Chatterjee (Mountain View, Calif.), Fei Chen (Woodinville, Wash.), Bernard Charles Kress (Redwood City, Calif.), Maria Esther Pace (Palo Alto, Calif.), Joel Steven Kollin (Seattle) and Scott Jeffrey Woltman (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed that relate to compact optical systems comprising SLMs. One example provides a projection system comprising an illumination stage including a light emitting diode (LED) array. The LED array comprises a p...