ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,436, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for microdisk and multiplet laser particles" was invented by Seok-Hyun Yun (Belmont, Mass.) and Paul Dannenberg (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first layer, a first spacer layer, and a second layer of a semiconductor wafer can be etched to produce a plurality of columnar structures extending from the substrate layer and including a first optical cavity situated about the first gain medium, a second optical cavity situated about the second gain medium, and a first spacer region contacting the first gain medium and the s...