US Patent Issued to NICHIA on July 1 for "Method of manufacturing metal-coated member, metal-coated member, wavelength conversion member, and light emitting device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,998, issued on July 1, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing metal-coated member, metal-coated member, wavelength conversion member, and light emitting device" was invented by Toshiaki Yamashita (Komatsushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a metal-coated member includes: providing a composite ceramic member including a ceramic part, and a connection part connected to the ceramic part; disposing a precious metal layer on a surface region that includes at least a portion of a surface of the ceramic part and a portion of a surface of the connection part, the precious metal l...