US Patent Issued to Lumentum Operations on May 20 for "Matrix addressable vertical cavity surface emitting laser array" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,618, issued on May 20, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Matrix addressable vertical cavity surface emitting laser array" was invented by Yeyu Zhu (San Jose, Calif.), Eric R. Hegblom (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yuefa Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) array may include a substrate. In some implementations, the VCSEL array may include a set of cathodes disposed on the substrate in a first direction, wherein a cathode, of the set of cathodes, is defined by a serpentine shape. In some implementations, the VCSEL array may inc...