US Patent Issued to AMS INTERNATIONAL on May 26 for "Laser sensor and method of manufacturing a laser sensor" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,541, issued on May 26, was assigned to AMS INTERNATIONAL AG (Jona, Switzerland).

"Laser sensor and method of manufacturing a laser sensor" was invented by Laurent Nevou (Wadenswil, Switzerland), Jean Francois Seurin (West Windsor, N.J.), Svenja Mauthe (Altendorf, Switzerland) and Jens Geiger (Thalwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-mixing interferometric, SMI, laser sensor comprises a vertical cavity surface emitting laser, VCSEL, configured to emit laser radiation, the VCSEL comprising a first distributed Bragg reflector, DBR, a second DBR and a cavity region including an active light generation region, wherein the...