ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,981, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light-emitting element array and method of producing light-emitting element array" was invented by Jugo Mitomo (Kumamoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Provided is a light-emitting element array that includes a plurality of light-emitting elements two-dimensionally arranged on a light-emitting element surface of the light-emitting element array, each of the plurality of light-emitting elements being a vertical cavity surface emitting laser and being formed in a mesa shape surrounded by a recessed portion formed in the light-emittin...