ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,268, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Fast spatial light modulator based on atomically thin reflector" was invented by Trond I. Andersen (Cambridge, Mass.), Ryan J. Gelly (Cambridge, Mass.), Giovanni Scuri (Cambridge, Mass.), Bo L. Dwyer (Cambridge, Mass.), Dominik S. Wild (Garching, Germany), Rivka Bekenstein (Cambridge, Mass.), Andrey Sushko (Cambridge, Mass.), Susanne F. Yelin (Cambridge, Mass.), Philip Kim (Cambridge, Mass.), Hongkun Park (Cambridge, Mass.) and Mikhail D. Lukin (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device useful for spatial light ...