US Patent Issued to MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS on July 8 for "Semiconductor lasers and processes for the planarization of semiconductor lasers" (New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,212, issued on July 8, was assigned to MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS INC. (Lowell, Mass.).

"Semiconductor lasers and processes for the planarization of semiconductor lasers" was invented by Ali Badar Alamin Dow (Ithaca, N.Y.), Jason Daniel Bowker (Dryden, N.Y.) and Malcolm R. Green (Lansing, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser structure may include a substrate, an active region arranged on the substrate, and a waveguide arranged on the active region. The waveguide may include a first surface and a second surface that join to form a first angle relative to the active region. A material may be deposited on the first surfac...