US Patent Issued to LEONARDO ELECTRONICS US on July 21 for "High peak power laser diode assembly" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,178, issued on July 21, was assigned to LEONARDO ELECTRONICS US INC. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"High peak power laser diode assembly" was invented by Lihui Zheng (Tucson, Ariz.), Gregory Pennington (Tucson, Ariz.), Jason Helmrich (Tucson, Ariz.), Connor Magness (Tucson, Ariz.) and Prabhuram Thiagarajan (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser diode apparatus includes a laser diode array having an emission surface and a mounting surface. A heatsink is in thermal communication with the laser diode array at the mounting surface. The heatsink extends perpendicularly away from at least one edge of the emission surface. Positive and ne...