US Patent Issued to ROBERT BOSCH on Aug. 4 for "Method for producing micro-optics on surface-emitting laser diodes (VCSEL)" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,717, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for producing micro-optics on surface-emitting laser diodes (VCSEL)" was invented by Johannes Meyer (Magstadt, Germany), Johannes Hofmann (Tuebingen, Germany) and Tobias Wilm (Heimsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing micro-optics on surface-emitting laser diodes. In a wafer-level operation, the micro-optics are preferably positioned directly on the VCSEL's forming, in each instance, a part of a coherent wafer."

The patent was filed on Sept. 27, 2022, under Application No. 17/935,892.

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