ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,915, issued on July 14, was assigned to Enplas Corp. (Kawaguchi, Japan).

"Light emitting device, surface light source device, and display device" was invented by Hiroaki Okuyama (Saitama, Japan), Masaki Nogami (Saitama, Japan) and Takuro Momoi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting device of the present invention is a light emitting device including a light emitting element and a light flux controlling member for controlling light from the light emitting element. The light flux controlling member includes an incidence surface, a total reflecting surface, and an emission surface. In a light distribution curve ...