ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,664, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).
"Light-receiving element and light-emitting device" was invented by Soichiro Miura (Tokushima, Japan), Yoshiharu Nagae (Tokushima, Japan), Kiyoshi Enomoto (Komatsushima, Japan) and Shota Murakami (Anan, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detecting element is realized in which a length thereof is reduced in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which light detecting regions are disposed side by side. A light detecting element includes a light detecting surface provided with a plurality of light detecting regions disposed side by side in a first directi...