ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,756, issued on April 7, was assigned to Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd. (Haifa, Israel) and Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg (Wurzburg, Germany).

"Topologic insulator surface emitting laser system" was invented by Mordechai Segev (Haifa, Israel), Sven Hofling (Karlstadt, Germany), Sebastian Klembt (Gerbrunn, Germany), Alexander Dikopoltsev (Haifa, Israel), Tristan Harder (Wurzburg, Germany), Eran Lustig (Haifa, Israel) and Yaakov Lumer (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser source is presented a plurality of unit cells of a selected number of partially physically coupled lasing units arranged w...