ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,351, issued on June 17, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing light-emitting device, and light-emitting device" was invented by Atsushi Kojima (Tokushima, Japan) and Kenji Ozeki (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device includes: a providing step including providing a plurality of light sources, each of the light sources having an upper surface including a light-emitting portion, a lower surface opposite to the upper surface, and lateral surfaces between the upper surface and the lower surface, wherein each of the light sources includes an externa...