US Patent Issued to TRUMPF PHOTONIC COMPONENTS on Dec. 9 for "Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) based pattern projector" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,621, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TRUMPF PHOTONIC COMPONENTS GMBH (Ulm, Germany).

"Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) based pattern projector" was invented by Stephan Gronenborn (Aachen, Germany) and Holger Joachim Moench (Vaals, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic apparatus is adapted to generate a structured light pattern. The optoelectronic apparatus has: a first array of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs); a first homogenization optics arrangement associated with the first array of VCSELs; a second array of VCSELs; a second homogenization optics arrangement associated with th...