ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,792, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light emitting device, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Kiyohisa Sakai (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirohisa Yasukawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masayuki Nagao (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting device includes a first substrate, a light source on a first surface of the first substrate and that emits light toward an object, and a driver disposed in the first substrate and that drives the light source. The driver overlaps the light source in a plan view. The light emitting device includes at least one first via dispos...