ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,632, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Light-emitting device" was invented by Shota Ando (Kyoto, Japan), Takahiro Matsuoka (Kyoto, Japan) and Tatsuya Ohara (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The light-emitting device includes a solid-state light-emitting element, driving capacitors and a switching element which are formed on/in a substrate. When the switching element is turned on, the switching element forms a driving current loop for discharging charged electric charges of the driving capacitors to the solid-state light-emitting element. The driving capacitors are configured ...