ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,441, issued on July 22, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing wavelength converting member and method of manufacturing light emitting device" was invented by Shusaku Bando (Anan, Japan) and Hirokazu Sasa (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing wavelength converting members includes: disposing masks having a rectangular shape in plan view on an upper surface of a wavelength converting substrate; singulating the substrate into workpieces, each including an upper surface and lateral surfaces, with a predetermined size and a rectangular shape in plan view such that the upper su...