ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,479, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).
"Method for manufacturing light-emitting element" was invented by Takefumi Nakagawa (Tokushima, Japan), Kazuo Takahashi (Tokushima, Japan) and Akira Fujioka (Tokushima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a light-emitting element includes preparing a wafer that includes a semiconductor structure body and a light-transmitting conductive film; forming a first mask on the light-transmitting conductive film; removing the light-transmitting conductive film exposed from the first mask to form an opening in the light-transmitting conductive film,...