ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,806, issued on March 11, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Semiconductor laser drive device and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Hirohisa Yasukawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a semiconductor laser drive device, a wiring inductance in electrically connecting a semiconductor laser and a laser driver is reduced. The semiconductor laser drive device includes a substrate, the laser driver, and the semiconductor laser. The laser driver is built in the substrate. The semiconductor laser is mounted on one surface of the substrate of the semiconductor laser drive de...