ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,845, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to EXALOS AG (Schlieren, Switzerland).

"Superluminescent diode module" was invented by Marcus Dulk (Schlieren, Switzerland), Jean Dahdah (Schlieren, Switzerland), Stefan Gloor (Schlieren, Switzerland), Nikolay Primerov (Schlieren, Switzerland) and Christian Velez (Schlieren, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A module accommodates multiple superluminescent light emitting diodes, SLEDs, 12r, 12g and 12b. The SLEDs are arranged in an enclosure and output respective light beams to propagate into free space within the enclosure. The individual light beams from the SLED sources are combined int...