ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,624, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Surface emitting laser and method for manufacturing surface emitting laser" was invented by Mikihiro Yokozeki (Tokyo), Hiroshi Nakajima (Tokyo), Tomomasa Watanabe (Tokyo) and Michinori Shiomi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides a surface emitting laser capable of improving flatness of a surface of a buried layer while reducing diffraction loss of light in the buried layer.The surface emitting laser according to present technology includes a first structure including a first multilayer film reflector, a second structure including a sec...