ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,123, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Light-emitting device and drawing apparatus" was invented by Yosuke Kasuya (Ebina, Japan) and Tsutomu Otsuka (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting device includes a base that is composed of a metal block that extends in a first direction, multiple light-emitting portions unaligned in the first direction and facing a front surface of the base, the multiple light-emitting portions including multiple light sources that extend in the first direction and that are supported by a support that extends in the first direction, and a ...