ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,051, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Surface emitting laser module, optical device, and surface emitting laser substrate" was invented by Misaki Ishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoto Jikutani (Miyagi, Japan) and Kazuma Izumiya (Miyagi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface emitting laser module includes a base substrate, a surface emitting laser substrate mounted on the base substrate, the surface emitting laser substrate including a surface emitting laser element, and the surface emitting laser substrate having a first face facing the base substrate and a second face facing away from the base subs...