ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,196, issued on May 6, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).
"Light emitting device" was invented by Soichiro Miura (Tokushima, Japan) and Ryota Okuno (Tokushima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting device includes: a laser element; a case enclosing the laser element, the case including a light-transmissive region configured to allow light emitted from the laser element to transmit through the light-transmissive region; a first lens configured to collimate or converge light emitted from the laser element; and a second lens that is disposed in the case and spaced apart from the first lens, the second lens locate...