ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,234, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor laser and method of manufacturing semiconductor laser" was invented by Yasuhiro Kadowaki (Kumamoto, Japan) and Hideki Watanabe (Kumamoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor laser including: a stacked body in which a first cladding layer of a first conductivity type, a second cladding layer of a second conductivity type, and a light emission layer provided between the first cladding layer and the second cladding layer are stacked on a semiconductor substrate; and a ridge part provided as a projection structure extending in one direction ...