ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,436, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Surface emitting laser device, electronic device, and manufacturing method for surface emitting laser device" was invented by Jugo Mitomo (Kumamoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a surface emitting laser device and an electronic device that includes the surface emitting laser device. The is a surface emitting laser device includes an element unit including an element arrangement area in which a plurality of surface emitting laser elements is arranged, and an adjacent area adjacent to the element arrangement area. The sur...