ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,670, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Light-emitting device" was invented by Hideki Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiaki Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshinori Yamauchi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a light-emitting device that includes a light emission section, a separation groove, and a high reflectance region. The light emission section includes a stack structure including an active layer, a first reflector, and a second reflector. The active layer performs light emission by current injection. The first reflector and the second reflector are sta...