US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Oct. 14 for "Light-emitting module with cover member and light-transmissive member having higher hardness than cover member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,509, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light-emitting module with cover member and light-transmissive member having higher hardness than cover member" was invented by Shinya Matsuoka (Anan, Japan) and Tsuyoshi Okahisa (Tsukushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting module includes: a light source; a lens located over the light source and configured to transmit light from the light source; and a cover member located over the lens and having a lower surface on which the light is to be incident and an upper surface from which the light is to be emitted, where the lower surface of the cove...