ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,177, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Emitter assembly with a redistribution layer for a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) chip" was invented by Wei Shi (San Jose, Calif.), Joseph Leigh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Eric R. Hegblom (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Suhit Ranjan Das (San Jose, Calif.), Huanlin Zhu (San Jose, Calif.), Raman Srinivasan (Fremont, Calif.), Gianluca Bacchin (Albuquerque, N.M.), Yuefa Li (San Jose, Calif.), Jacob U. Lopez Ruvalcaba (Albuquerque, N.M.), Lijun Zhu (Dublin, Calif.) and Qianhuan Yu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations,...