ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,973, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optical module with double emitter chips and double dove prisms" was invented by John G. Bai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module may include a diode laser with dual emitters respectively configured to emit a first laser beam and a second laser beam in a beam propagation direction. The optical module may include a fast axis collimator (FAC) arranged to collimate the first and second laser beams in a vertical direction relative to the beam propagation direction and a slow axis collimator (SAC) arranged after the FAC to ...