US Patent Issued to Genesee Valley Innovations on Feb. 24 for "Independently-addressable high power surface-emitting laser array with tight-pitch packing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,552, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Genesee Valley Innovations LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Independently-addressable high power surface-emitting laser array with tight-pitch packing" was invented by Christopher Chua (San Jose, Calif.), Joerg Martini (San Francisco), Zhihong Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, Calif.), Patrick Y. Maeda (Mountain View, Calif.) and Peter Kiesel (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor surface-emitting laser array can be provided with a group of independently addressable light-emitting pixels arranged in at least two rows and in a linear array on a common s...