ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,558, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Light emitting element and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Masayuki Tanaka (Tokyo), Kentaro Fujii (Tokyo), Tatsushi Hamaguchi (Tokyo) and Rintaro Koda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a semiconductor device that comprises a layered structure configured by layering a first compound semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second compound semiconductor layer. The semiconductor device further includes a substrate, a first light reflecting layer arranged on the first surface side of the first compound semiconductor layer, and a sec...