US Patent Issued to B.E. Meyers & Co. on Oct. 27 for "Addressable vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser for aiming and pointing beams" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,871, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to B.E. Meyers & Co. Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Addressable vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser for aiming and pointing beams" was invented by Spencer Nelson (Kirkland, Wash.), Miles Elledge (Woodinville, Wash.), Alexander Bigby (Redmond, Wash.) and Thomas Alldredge (Clinton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) die that includes individually addressable VCSEL elements, the individually addressable VCSEL elements respectively including one or more lasing segments etched into the VCSEL die; a controller that designates a selected VC...