ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,667, issued on June 24, was assigned to JAPAN DISPLAY INC. (Tokyo).
"LED module" was invented by Hideaki Abe (Tokyo), Kazuyuki Yamada (Tokyo), Keisuke Asada (Tokyo), Kota Uogishi (Tokyo), Kenichi Takemasa (Tokyo) and Daiki Isono (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An LED module has a first layer including a first plane, an LED chip arranged on the first plane, a second layer surrounding the LED chip and including a convex part on the first plane, and a third layer arranged outside the LED chip and overlapping an upper surface of the first layer, a side surface of the second layer, and a part of the upper surface of the second layer...