ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,337, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Light emitting device and projector" was invented by Hiroaki Jiroku (Suwa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting device includes a substrate, and a first columnar structure group having first columnar structures at a light emitting section and first intermediate columnar structures, a second columnar structure group having second columnar structures at a region other than the light emitting section and second intermediate columnar structures, an inter-layer insulating layer covering the first and second columnar structure groups, a conductive layer coup...