ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,612, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Visible light-emitting semiconductor laser device and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Maxim Vladimirovich Ryabko (Moscow), Alexey Andreevich Shchekin (Moscow) and Aleksandr Sergeevich Shorokhov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor laser light-emitting structure includes a semiconductor laser light-emitting structure having a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser structure and configured to emit light having a first wavelength, and a wavelength converter including a metasurface and monolithically formed wi...