ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,969, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo) and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Surface emitting laser, electronic device, and method for manufacturing surface emitting laser" was invented by Takahiro Arakida (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichi Agatuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Rintaro Koda (Tokyo), Yasutaka Higa (Tokyo), Osamu Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kota Tokuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides a surface emitting laser capable of suppressing a decrease in luminous efficiency.The present technology provides a surface emitting laser including: first and sec...