ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,461, issued on July 7, was assigned to EXALOS AG (Schlieren, Switzerland).
"Monolithic edge-emitting semiconductor diode arrays" was invented by Marco Rossetti (Schlieren, Switzerland), Marcus Dulk (Schlieren, Switzerland), Antonino Francesco Castiglia (Schlieren, Switzerland), Marco Malinverni (Schlieren, Switzerland) and Christian Velez (Schlieren, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monolithic edge-emitting semiconductor diode array chip (100) comprises a one-dimensional array (70) of diode emitters (50), such as laser diodes, superluminescent diodes or semiconductor optical amplifiers. Semiconductor layers are arranged on...