ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,641, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Light-emitting element, optical detection module, manufacturing method for light-emitting element, and scanning electron microscope" was invented by Kuniyoshi Yamauchi (Hamamatsu, Japan), Minoru Kondo (Hamamatsu, Japan), Takayuki Nakamura (Hamamatsu, Japan), Junya Maeda (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Satoru Okawara (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided a light-emitting element, an optical detection module, a method for manufacturing a light-emitting element, and a scanning electron microscope using the same, by which it is possibl...