ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,099, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Optically reduced display pixel fill factor for increased display resolution" was invented by Jeffrey Matthew Kempf (Dallas), Alexander Lyubarsky (Dallas), Amit Mittal (Bangalore, India) and Terry Alan Bartlett (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a focusing lens, a SLM optically coupled to the focusing lens and comprising micromirrors on a surface of the SLM, where the focusing lens is tilted at an incident angle relative to the surface of the SLM, an incident light beam is illuminated on the SLM at the incident angle, and the incident an...