US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Sept. 16 for "Method of manufacturing lens and light emitting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,774, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing lens and light emitting device" was invented by Tomohisa Kishimoto (Anan, Japan), Tsuyoshi Okahisa (Tokushima, Japan) and Toshiyuki Fujii (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a lens includes: injecting a thermosetting first resin in a first mold, and curing the thermosetting first resin, to form a cover blank having cover parts; removing a part or all parts of the first mold; arranging the cover blank in a second mold; injecting a thermosetting second resin having a greater light absorptance or a greater lig...