ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,972, issued on May 13, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light emitting device" was invented by Toshiya Igata (Tokushima, Japan), Eiichiro Okahisa (Tokushima, Japan) and Takeshi Imai (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting device includes: a base having a mounting face including a disposition region, a plurality of first wirings, and a plurality of second wirings; a plurality of light emitting elements, including one or more first light emitting elements, one or more second light emitting elements, and one or more third light emitting elements, disposed in two rows and N columns (Nless than=2) in the d...