US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Sept. 30 for "Semiconductor light emitting element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. RE50,614, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Semiconductor light emitting element" was invented by Masahiko Sano (Anan, Japan), Takahiko Sakamoto (Anan, Japan), Keiji Emura (Naruto, Japan) and Katsuyoshi Kadan (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a light emitting element capable or realizing at least one of lower resistance, higher output, higher power efficiency (1 m/W), higher mass productivity and lower cost of the element using a light transmissive electrode for an electrode arranged exterior to the light emitting structure. A semiconductor light emitting element inclu...