ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,389, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light emitting device and method for manufacturing light emitting device" was invented by Masatoshi Nakagaki (Komatsushima, Japan), Tadaaki Miyata (Yokohama, Japan) and Yoshihiro Kimura (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting device includes: at least one semiconductor laser element; a submount; and a base portion having a mounting surface. The submount includes: a first lateral face being located at a side of an exiting lateral surface of the semiconductor laser element, the first lateral face intersecting the upper face of the submount, an...