ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,755, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to JAPAN LIFELINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY (Hokkaido, Japan).

"Light irradiation device" was invented by Yuki Kodama (Tokyo), Masaki Kuwatani (Hokkaido, Japan), Hajime Hirata (Hokkaido, Japan), Mikako Ogawa (Hokkaido, Japan) and Kohei Nakajima (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light irradiation device includes a tube including a tube main body and a light emitting portion, a plurality of wiring boards disposed inside the light emitting portion and including a plurality of light emitting elements disposed at an equal interval mounted, ...