US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Feb. 4 for "Light emitting module" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,383, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light emitting module" was invented by Tsuyoshi Okahisa (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting module according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a light source, a lens disposed over the light source and configured to transmit light from the light source, and a cover member disposed over the lens, wherein the cover member includes, in a top view, a first region, a second region located around the first region and having a higher light diffusion effect than the first region, and a third region located inward of the first reg...