US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Vertical cavity surface emitting laser, head gimbal assembly, and fabrication process" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,439, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Vertical cavity surface emitting laser, head gimbal assembly, and fabrication process" was invented by Takuya Matsumoto (San Jose, Calif.) and Barry C. Stipe (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL), a head gimbal assembly for mounting a VCSEL, devices incorporating such articles, and to a process for forming a VCSEL. In an embodiment, a process for forming a VCSEL device is provided. The process includes forming a trench in a ...