US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Oct. 6 for "Light source device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,152, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light source device" was invented by Yoshihiro Kimura (Yokohama, Japan) and Tadaaki Miyata (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source device includes a substrate, an edge-emitting laser element, a surface-emitting laser element, and an optical member. The substrate has a supporting surface. The edge-emitting laser element is directly or indirectly supported by the supporting surface and configured to emit a first light beam in a first direction. The surface-emitting laser element is directly or indirectly supported by the supporting surface and con...