G02F 2203/12
Spatial light modulator
Official title: spatial light modulator
G02F2203/12 (Spatial light modulator) appears on 517 US grants and 559 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02F- Granted patents
- 517
- Published applications
- 559
- Assignees
- 302
- Inventors
- 1,153
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2004 | 8 | 13 |
| 2005 | 7 | 19 |
| 2006 | 11 | 15 |
| 2007 | 14 | 32 |
| 2008 | 12 | 21 |
| 2009 | 22 | 23 |
| 2010 | 8 | 28 |
| 2011 | 13 | 23 |
| 2012 | 26 | 11 |
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| 2017 | 9 | 29 |
| 2018 | 18 | 37 |
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| 2021 | 36 | 43 |
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| 2023 | 30 | 41 |
| 2024 | 29 | 24 |
| 2025 | 23 | 25 |
| 2026 | 15 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Optical pulse train generation device and optical pulse train generation method1 Sep 2026US 12,724,318 B2Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
- Liquid crystal grating and display device11 Aug 2026US 12,704,754 B2Shanghai Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
- Spatial light modulation device, processing device, and position estimation method16 Jun 2026US 12,656,101 B2Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
- Managing optical nonlinearities and optical mode sorting19 May 2026US 12,631,939 B1SensorQ Technologies Inc.
- Reflective optical stack for privacy display3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259443 A1RealD Spark, LLC
- Solid state optical switching engine20 Aug 2026US 2026/0244072 A1II-Vi Delaware, Inc.
- Tunable Metasurface Optical Fibers for Advanced Light Manipulation13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235803 A1
- A system for directing incident light onto spatial light modulator planes30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219457 A1Huber+Suhner Polatis Limited
- Monolithic Semiconductor-Based Optically Addressable Light Valve30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219537 A1Seurat Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- High-yield spatial light modulator with light blocking layer329US 5,818,095 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1998
- High-resolution spatial light modulator for 3-dimensional holographic display302US 6,819,469 B12004
- High-yield spatial light modulator with light blocking layer268US 5,597,736 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1997
- Optical apparatus249US 5,666,226 ASharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 1997
- Optical switching and routing system193US 5,771,320 AWavefront Research, Inc. · 1998