ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,540, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sony Corp. (Tokyo).
"Light emitting element" was invented by Tatsushi Hamaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Jugo Mitomo (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Nakajima (Kanagawa, Japan), Masamichi Ito (Miyagi, Japan) and Susumu Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting element according to the present disclosure includes a first light reflecting layer 41, a laminated structure 20, and a second light reflecting layer 42 laminated to each other. The laminated structure 20 includes a first compound semiconductor layer 21, a light emitting layer 23, and a second compound semiconductor layer ...