ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,522, issued on July 1, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Light emitting device and electronic instrument using the same" was invented by Shozo Oshio (Osaka, Japan), Mitsuru Nitta (Kyoto, Japan), Ryosuke Shigitani (Osaka, Japan), Chigusa Fujiwara (Osaka, Japan) and Shunpei Fujii (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting device includes: a first light emitting element that emits a first light component; a second light emitting element that emits a second light component; a first phosphor that emits a third light component; and a second phosphor that emits a fourth li...