ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,602, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"VCSEL array with small pulse delay" was invented by Alexander Weigl (Ulm, Germany), Stephan Gronenborn (Ulm, Germany) and Holger Joachim Moench (Ulm, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VCSEL array has VCSEL sub-arrays having VCSELs on a substrate. The sub-arrays are electrically contacted by a first electrical contact arrangement common to the VCSELs within a respective sub-array and a second electrical contact arrangement. The second electrical contact arrangement has second electrical contacts contacting a respective VCSEL within th...