ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,336, issued on July 15, was assigned to ams-OSRAM International GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Uniformly illuminating radiation emitting device and method of manufacture" was invented by Peter Brick (Regensburg, Germany), Klaus Flock (Regensburg, Germany) and Martin Moritz (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation emitting device may have a plurality of emitters and a plurality of optical elements. The emitters may be arranged along a first emitter direction at a first average emitter spacing AE1 and along a second emitter direction extending obliquely or perpendicularly to the first emitter direction at a second ...