ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,860, issued on July 29, was assigned to AMS-OSRAM INTERNATIONAL GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Semiconductor laser and LIDAR system and also laser system with the semiconductor laser" was invented by Peter Fuchs (Regensburg, Germany), Bruno Jentzsch (Regensburg, Germany), Hubert Halbritter (Dietfurt-Toeging, Germany), Martin Rudolf Behringer (Regensburg, Germany), Alvaro Gomez-Iglesias (Regensburg, Germany), Christian Lauer (Pettendorf, Germany), Dean Maximilian Schoke (Regensburg, Germany) and Tomasz Swietlik (Burgweinting, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments, a semiconductor laser comprises a semiconductor...