ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,602, issued on May 6, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).
"Light source device" was invented by Tadaaki Miyata (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source device includes: a substrate having a support face; a plurality of light emitting elements disposed on the support face, the plurality of light emitting elements including a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element, each of which is a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser element; and a planar lightwave circuit having a light incident face that faces the support face and including a plurality of optical waveguides configured to gu...