US Patent Issued to SEEREAL TECHNOLOGIES on May 6 for "Light modulation device having high light efficiency" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,646, issued on May 6, was assigned to SEEREAL TECHNOLOGIES S.A. (Munsbach, Luxembourg).

"Light modulation device having high light efficiency" was invented by Norbert Leister (Dresden Sachsen, Germany) and Bo Kroll (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a light modulation device having pixels. Essentially, the one half of the pixels are reflective and the other half of the pixels are transmissive. The reflective pixels are arranged in alternation with the transmissive pixels in the same substrate plane. The light modulation device also has a backplane, which has transistors and data lines for conducting signa...