ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,040, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Laser light source" was invented by Norihiro Dejima (Yokohama, Japan), Hideaki Takeda (Kawasaki, Japan), Hidenori Matsuo (Hadano, Japan) and Masaki Omori (Toshima-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser light source includes: a laser diode chip including an emission layer, a substrate supporting the emission layer, and an emission end surface; a submount that includes a principal surface on which the laser diode chip is fixed and a pair of lens supports located at opposite sides with respect to the emission end surface of the laser diode chip; a lens bonde...