ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,362, issued on March 17, was assigned to KYOCERA SOC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Light emitting module" was invented by Masami Hatori (Yokohama, Japan), Satoshi Nakao (Yokohama, Japan) and Isao Masukawa (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting module includes a semiconductor laser, a collimating lens for that collimates light beam output from the semiconductor laser, a prism pair including two substantially triangular-plate-shaped prisms, each passing the light beam between two end surfaces on both sides of one apex angle to refract the light beam, and the prisms being sequentially arranged on an optical path o...