ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,666, issued on June 24, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).
"Light-emitting device" was invented by Kiyoshi Enomoto (Komatsushima, Japan) and Tatsuya Kanazawa (Anan, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting device includes light-emitting elements to emit first and second lights; a package having a disposition surface on which the light-emitting elements are disposed and a light extracting surface through which the first and second lights are to be emitted; a wave plate bonded to the light extracting surface of the package at a position on which a main portion of the first light is to be incident and a main portio...