US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Sept. 23 for "Light-emitting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,817, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light-emitting device" was invented by Kazuya Eto (Anan, Japan), Soichiro Miura (Tokushima, Japan), Takuya Hashimoto (Tokushima, Japan) and Masatoshi Nakagaki (Komatsushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting device includes first and second light-emitting elements, upper submounts, and a lower submount. The upper submounts include a first submount having a first upper surface and a first lateral surface located on a same side as an emission end surface of the first light-emitting element, and a second submount having a second upper surface and ...