ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,089, issued on April 29, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light emitting device" was invented by Kenta Niki (Tokushima, Japan) and Jun Takahashi (Inagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting device includes one or more light emitting elements and a plurality of fluorescent materials, and emits a first light, a second light, and a third light, wherein the first light has a correlated color temperature between 1,500 K and 3,500 K and a color rendering index R9 of 50 or more, the second light has a correlated color temperature between 3,500 K and 5,500 K and a color rendering index R9 of 50 or more, the third ...