US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Multi-color visible light source including integrated VCSELs and integrated photonic cavities" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,050, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Multi-color visible light source including integrated VCSELs and integrated photonic cavities" was invented by Zhimin Shi (Bellevue, Wash.), Maik Andre Scheller (Redmond, Wash.), Gareth Valentine (Kirkland, Wash.) and James Ronald Bonar (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visible light source includes a substrate, a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser including an active semiconductor region configured to emit infrared light and a first reflector configured to reflect the infrared light emitted by the active semiconductor r...