US Patent Issued to Apple on July 28 for "Integrated optoelectronic module" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,726, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Integrated optoelectronic module" was invented by Alexander Shpunt (Portola Valley, Calif.), Raviv Erlich (Kibbutz Beit Nir, Israel) and Zafrir Mor (Ein Habsor, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beam generating device includes a semiconductor substrate, having an optical passband. A first array of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) is formed on a first face of the semiconductor substrate and are configured to emit respective laser beams through the substrate at a wavelength within the passband. A second array of microlenses is formed on a sec...