US Patent Issued to Luminus on March 31 for "Vertically oriented, multiple laser diode based illumination device" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,548, issued on March 31, was assigned to Luminus Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Vertically oriented, multiple laser diode based illumination device" was invented by Joseph A. Hornung (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for integrating multiple, vertically oriented laser diode emitters into a low cost package suitable for high volume manufacturing are presented herein. Multiple laser diode based emitters are assembled on a mounting structure, which, in turn, is fixed to an insulated metal substrate. Each of the multiple laser diode based emitters are oriented such that the light output generated by each ...