US Patent Issued to VividQ on Sept. 23 for "Optical assembly and method for reducing zero-order light in a holographic display" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,779, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to VividQ Ltd. (London).

"Optical assembly and method for reducing zero-order light in a holographic display" was invented by Alfred James Newman (London) and Andrzej Kaczorowski (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical assembly is provided for use in holographic display of a replay image. The optical assembly may be of particular use is an augmented reality headset. The optical assembly includes a light-modulation element arranged to be illuminated off-axis by a light beam. The light-modulation element modulates the incident light to generate a replay image and generates a zero-order l...