ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,769, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to STANLEY ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vertical cavity light-emitting element" was invented by Masaru Kuramoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical cavity light-emitting element includes a substrate, a first multilayer reflector, a semiconductor structure layer, an electrode layer, and a second multilayer reflector. The semiconductor structure layer includes a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type on the first multilayer reflector, a light-emitting layer on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type on the light-emitti...