ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,709, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Spatial light modulator and electronic apparatus including the same" was invented by Byunggil Jeong (Anyang-si, South Korea), Sunil Kim (Osan-si, South Korea), Junghyun Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Minkyung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spatial light modulator and an electronic apparatus including the spatial light modulator are provided. The spatial light modulator may include: a plurality of pixels configured to steer incident light; and a plurality of thermoelectric layers in which heat transfer with the pl...