ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,895, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Syght Inc. (Golden, Colo.).

"Advanced spatial light modulators, associated systems and methods" was invented by Charles C. Partee (Golden, Colo.), Kevin D. McKinstry (Westminster, Colo.) and Michael G. Machado (Honokaa, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spatial light modulator system includes a concentration layer including an array of optical concentrators, such that each concentrator concentrates a portion of an input light beam. A modulation layer includes an array of light modulators each in optical communication with one of the optical concentrators for modulating the portion of the ...