ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,040, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Light emitting apparatus, light source unit, light source apparatus, and optical fiber laser" was invented by Yuta Ishige (Tokyo), Gabor Gajdatsy (Budapest, Hungary) and Masaya Nakazumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting apparatus includes: a light emitting element configured to emit laser light; a case configured to house the light emitting element, and including a window configured to allow transmittance of the laser light emitted from the light emitting element; a first optical element provided outside the case and configured to conver...