US Patent Issued to NICHIA on July 8 for "Light source device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,409, issued on July 8, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light source device" was invented by Norimasa Yoshida (Komatsushima, Japan) and Tsuyoshi Okahisa (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source device includes: a plurality of light-emitting units, each including a light-emitting surface; an optical member configured to allow light emitted from the light-emitting units to be transmitted or passed therethrough, the optical member including: one or a plurality of first regions from which light of a first chromaticity is extracted upon operation of the light-emitting units, and one or a plurality of seco...