US Patent Issued to SILICON LIGHT MACHINES on March 18 for "High contrast spatial light modulator" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,667, issued on March 18, was assigned to SILICON LIGHT MACHINES Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"High contrast spatial light modulator" was invented by Olav Solgaard (Stanford, Calif.), Alexander Payne (Ben Lommond, Calif.), James Hunter (Campbell, Calif.) and Stephen Hamann (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microelectromechanical systems based spatial light modulators (SLMs), and display systems and methods for operating the same are described. Generally, the SLM includes a linear array of a number of electrostatically deflectable ribbons suspended over a surface of a substrate. Each ribbon includes a split-ribbon por...