Seems Dr Taylor is continuing his work with a former colleague, they worked together on some of OPEL’s patents.  This patent issued last week by Taylor and Jianhong Cia and assigned to a “INTOP Corp”, with address listed as PO Box 134, Wilton, New Hampshire.  In searching, I can’t find anything related to the company in the US, but did find this on a company listing site in Canada, but company link seems to go nowhere.  The patent lawyer who filed it is from the Stamford CT area.

interesting, this past Monday (Aug 27th) there was an application submitted to change the applicant name from INTOP to Taylor, but this was declined by the patent office, it appears for administrative reasons.  Had things been in order, I assume INTOP would have no longer appeared on the patent.

You can find the documents I refer to on the patent scope site here

The recently granted patent:

Integrated Circuit Implementing a VCSEL Array or VCSEL Device

Publication number: 20180241173

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an array of VCSEL devices with an annealed oxygen implant region (annealed at a temperature greater than 800° C.) that surrounds and extends laterally between the VCSEL devices. A common anode and a common cathode can be electrically coupled to the VCSEL devices, with the common anode overlying the annealed oxygen implant region. The annealed oxygen implant region can funnel current into active optical regions of the VCSEL devices and provide current isolation between the VCSEL devices while avoiding an isolation etch between VCSEL devices. In another embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an annealed oxygen implant region surrounding a VCSEL device. The VCSEL device(s) can be formed from a multi-junction layer structure where built-in hole charge Qp for an intermediate p-type layer relative to built-in electron charge Qn for a bottom n-type layer is configured for diode-like current-voltage characteristics of the VCSEL device(s).

Type: Application

Filed: February 22, 2017

Publication date: August 23, 2018

Applicant: INTOP Corp.

Inventors: Geoff W. Taylor, Jianhong Cai

https://patents.justia.com/patent/20180241173