ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,534, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Semiconductor laser driving apparatus, electronic equipment, and manufacturing method of semiconductor laser driving apparatus" was invented by Hirohisa Yasukawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Nobuaki Kaji (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present technique is to obtain excellent heat radiation characteristics with a simple structure in a semiconductor laser driving apparatus. A semiconductor laser driving apparatus includes a substrate, a laser driver, and a semiconductor laser. The substrate incorporates the laser dr...