ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,389, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Light-emitting component, light-emitting element array chip, and optical measurement apparatus" was invented by Takashi Kondo (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenichi Ono (Kanagawa, Japan), Junichiro Hayakawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takafumi Higuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting component includes a substrate and plural light-emitting elements that are disposed on the substrate and emit light in a direction intersecting with a surface of the substrate and that are switched ON/OFF together. The plural light-emitting elements include...