US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Sept. 9 for "Light emitting module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,903, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light emitting module" was invented by Norimasa Yoshida (Komatsushima, Japan), Tsuyoshi Okahisa (Tokushima, Japan) and Saiki Yamamoto (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting module includes: a substrate; a plurality of light sources fixed on the substrate and generating individually controllable outputs; a light shielding member disposed between the light sources; a first lens that is disposed above the light sources and on which the light emitted from each of the light sources becomes incident; and a drive unit capable of rotating the sub...