US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Feb. 24 for "Q-switched semiconductor light-emitting element and distance measuring device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,685, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Q-switched semiconductor light-emitting element and distance measuring device" was invented by Tomoki Ono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a Q-switched semiconductor light-emitting element, including a comb electrode that has at least two or more gain regions and two or more absorption regions, the regions including an active layer and being continuous on a semiconductor substrate, separation regions being provided between the gain regions and the absorption regions, the longest region of the gain regions being located on a rear end surface side...