ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,117, issued on April 22, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light source apparatus and sensing module" was invented by Mitsushi Tabata (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Masuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Yuwaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuo Oba (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suppression of a rise in temperature is to be attained for a light source apparatus provided with an emission section in which a plurality of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser light-emitting elements is arrayed. A light source apparatus according to the present technology includes an emission section in which a plu...