ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,079, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Enplas Corp. (Kawaguchi, Japan).
"Light emitting device, light flux controlling member and surface light source device" was invented by Takuro Momoi (Kawaguchi, Japan) and Yuki Fujii (Kawaguchi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting device of the present invention includes: a substrate; a light emitting element; a light flux controlling member including a recess, a first reflecting surface, and an emission surface, the recess being configured to transmit light emitted from the light emitting element, the first reflecting surface being configured to reflect a part of light transm...