ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,168, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Semiconductor laser device and method of controlling semiconductor laser device" was invented by Hideo Yamaguchi (Kyoto, Japan) and Masaharu Fukakusa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor laser device is controlled by a controller and includes a plurality of optical amplifiers that each emit a light beam, a diffraction grating that receives the light beam from each of the plurality of optical amplifiers, and a rotary mirror that is rotatable and is disposed in an optical path between the plurality of optical amplifiers and the dif...