US Patent Issued to NICHIA on July 15 for "Optical lens and lighting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,791, issued on July 15, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Optical lens and lighting device" was invented by Wataru Kitahara (Kamiina-gun, Japan) and Takanori Aruga (Suwa-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical lens includes a first light incident portion where a narrow-angle light from a light source is incident, a second light incident portion where a wide-angle light from the light source is incident, a first total reflecting portion that totally reflects incident light from the first light incident portion, a second total reflecting portion that totally reflects incident light from the second light incident...