US Patent Issued to Lumentum Operations on July 29 for "Optical assembly with a microlens component and contacts on a same surface of a vertical cavity surface emitting laser device" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,857, issued on July 29, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optical assembly with a microlens component and contacts on a same surface of a vertical cavity surface emitting laser device" was invented by Wei Shi (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Wang (Fremont, Calif.), Hao Huang (San Jose, Calif.), John Michael Miller (Ottawa), Siu Kwan Cheung (San Jose, Calif.) and Lijun Zhu (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, an optical assembly includes a substrate that includes a thermally conductive core, an IC driver chip that is disposed on a first surface of the substrate, and a VCSEL de...