ELECTRONICS/COMPUTER HARDWARE/COMMUNICATIONS

Patent Trees for ColorLink, Inc.

LCOS Technology Expands Potential of Color Imaging and Display

A Patent Tree is a graphical display of knowledge dissemination from patented technological advances produced during an ATP-funded project. Some companies file for and are granted patents derived from their ATP project. Many of these patents are later referenced by other companies, thereby increasing the potential impact of the ATP project to propel the technology forward.


Patent trees for Status Report 96-01-0263 were generated during February 2006.

		Patent Trees Listed by:
	Patent		Patent Number	Company
·	"Retarder stacks for polarizing a first color spectrum along a first axis and a second color spectrum along a second axis" (No. 5,953,083: filed May 8, 1997; granted September 14, 1999)		5,953,083	ColorLink, Inc.
·	"Retarder stack for preconditioning light for a modulator having modulation and isotropic states of polarization" (No. 5,929,946: filed May 9, 1997; granted July 27, 1999)		5,929,946	ColorLink, Inc.
·	"Color selective light modulators employing birefringent stacks" (No. 5,990,996: filed May 9, 1997; granted November 23, 1999)		5,990,996	ColorLink, Inc.
·	"Optical retarder stack pair for transforming input light into polarization states having saturated color spectra" (No. 5,999,240: filed May 9, 1997; granted December 7, 1999)		5,999,240	ColorLink, Inc.
·	"Polarization manipulating device modulator with retarder stack which preconditions light for modulation and isotropic states" (No. 6,049,367: filed May 9, 1997; granted April 11, 2000)		6,049,367	ColorLink, Inc.
·	"Optical system for producing a modulated color image" (No. 6,417,892: filed July 30, 1998; granted July 9, 2002)		6,417,892	ColorLink, Inc.
·	"Color imaging systems and methods" (No. 6,183,091: filed May 14, 1999; granted February 6, 2001)		6,183,091	ColorLink, Inc.
·	"Display architecture using electronically controlled filters" (No. 6,273,571: filed October 1, 1999; granted August 14, 2001)		6,273,571	ColorLink, Inc.