US Patent Issued to National Institute for Materials Science on Dec. 30 for "Wavelength conversion member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,626, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to National Institute for Materials Science (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Wavelength conversion member" was invented by Daisuke Inomata (Tokyo), Rikiya Suzuki (Tokyo), Yusuke Arai (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Yamashita (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Sawano (Tokyo), Kiyoshi Shimamura (Ibaraki, Japan) and Encarnacion Antonia Garcia Villora (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wavelength conversion member includes a support, and a wavelength conversion layer that includes a phosphor particle group and a sealing member to seal the phosphor particle group and that is provided directly or through an other layer on the suppor...