US Patent Issued to NICHIA on April 14 for "Method of manufacturing vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,479, issued on April 14, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser element" was invented by Kenichi Terao (Tokushima, Japan) and Hitoshi Takayama (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser element includes: providing a nitride semiconductor layer including an n-side semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a p-side semiconductor layer in this order; covering at least a first portion of a surface of the p-side semiconductor layer with a mask member while a second portion of the surface of the p-s...