US Patent Issued to OPNOVIX on June 30 for "Spontaneous and stimulated emission devices based on relaxed III-nitride materials" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,232, issued on June 30, was assigned to OPNOVIX CORP. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Spontaneous and stimulated emission devices based on relaxed III-nitride materials" was invented by Michael R. Krames (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jun Wang (Lausanne, Switzerland), Nicolas Grandjean (Lausanne, Switzerland), Yao Chen (Lausanne, Switzerland), Jean-Francois Carlin (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Etienne Giraud (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Spontaneous and stimulated emission devices such as edge emitting laser diodes and vertical cavity surface emitting lasers operating in the visible spectrum and in the infrared spectrum between 380...