ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,420, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).
"Light emitting device" was invented by Hiroaki Ukawa (Itano-gun, Japan) and Ryo Iwasa (Anan, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting device includes: a base member including: a first lead, a second lead, and resin member supporting the first lead and the second lead, wherein each of a surface of the first lead that includes a first surface, a surface of the second lead, and a surface of the resin member that includes a second surface are positioned at an upper surface of the base member; a light emitting element located at the surface of the first lead...