US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on March 31 for "Semiconductor laser and semiconductor laser device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,540, issued on March 31, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor laser and semiconductor laser device" was invented by Kosuke Shinohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor laser comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor structure part that is formed on the substrate; a surface electrode formed on the structure part opposite to the substrate; and a conductive member formed on the surface electrode opposite to the substrate. The conductive member is such that part of or the whole of a side face thereof on an emission facet side, the side face being one side face in an x-direction...